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- Title
Toward a Modern Belief.
- Authors
Nirei, Yosuke
- Abstract
In this article, I discuss the significance of religions liberalism and reformism of Meiji Protestantism at the turn of the twentieth century. The period, I argue, is crucial to understanding Japanese Protestantism as modernist. The survival and expansion of Christianity and its educational institutions were at stake during the strong nationalist and imperialist consensus in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese war. This essay focuses on the "intellectual" impulses of modernist Protestants, their resonance with liberal theology, and their collaboration with emerging social and cultural sciences, especially comparative studies of religion. As I demonstrate here, the interest in these two realms of knowledge was widely shared among educated elites beyond Protestant circles, contributing to Japanese Protestants' overall growth and wellbeing in the early twentieth century.
- Subjects
JAPAN; LIBERALISM; PROTESTANTISM; CHRISTIANITY; MODERNISM (Christian theology); RELIGION
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007, Vol 34, Issue 1, p151
- ISSN
0304-1042
- Publication type
Essay