Christianity made in Japan : a study of indigenous movements /
For centuries the accommodation between Japan and Christianity has been an uneasy one. Compared with others of its Asian neighbors, the churches in Japan have never counted more than a small minority of believers more or less resigned to patterns of ritual and belief transplanted from the West. But...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wr4tb |
Table of Contents:
- Christianity as world religion and vernacular movement
- The social sources of Christianity in Japan
- Charisma, minor founders, and Indigenous movements
- The fountainhead of Japanese Christianity revisited
- Christianity as a path of self-cultivation
- Japanese versions of apostolic Christianity
- Japanese Christians and the world of the dead
- Comparative patterns of growth and decline
- The broader context of Japanese Christianity
- Appendix: Bibliographical guide to Indigenous Christian movements.