Book 2014
Christianity And Imperialism In Modern Japan Empire For God
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Christianity
- Church history
- Nationalism
- Protestantism
- Nihon Kumiai Kirisuto Kyōkai
- Christianity, 20th century
- Nationalism, religious aspects
- Japan, church history
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan explores how Japanese Protestants engaged with the unsettling changes that resulted from Japan's emergence as a world power in the early 20th century. Through this analysis, the book offers a new perspective on the intersection of religion and imperialism in modern Japan. Emily Anderson reassesses religion as a critical site of negotiation between the state and its subjects as part of Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state and colonial empire. The book shows how religion, including its adherents and the state's attempts to determine acceptable belief, is a necessary subject of study for a nuanced understanding of modern Japanese history