Ideology and Christianity in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415443562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 240 str.

Kiri Paramore

Opis

Ideology and Christianity in Japan shows the major role played by Christian-related discourse in the formation of early-modern and modern Japanese political ideology. It traces the history of anti-Christian ideas in Japanese political thought from the beginning of the 1600s up into the twentieth century.

The book traces a history development of anti-Christian ideas in Japan from the banning of Christianity by the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, to the use of Christian and anti-Christian ideology in the construction of modern Japanese state institutions at the end of the 1800s. The book thereby recasts the history of Christian-related discourse in Japan in a new paradigm showing its influence on modern thought and politics. Furthermore, this book demonstrates the direct links between the development of ideology in the modern Japanese state, and the construction of political thought in the earlyTokugawa shogunate. The book thereby demonstrates hitherto ignored links in Japanese history between modern and early-modern, and between religious and political elements.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Japanese Christian Thought: Doctrinal Diversity or Civilizational Clash?  2. Japanese Confucianism and Japanese Christianity: Parallels and Interactions  3. Early Tokugawa Anti-Christian Discourse: Proclamations, Populist Literature and Diplomacy  4. Attacking Non-Christian "Christians": Ideological Uses of Early Tokugawa Anti-Christian Discourse  5. Mid- and Late Tokugawa Anti-Christian Discourse: Continuity and Change  6. Meiji Anti-Christian Discourse: Modern National Ideology and Conservatism.  Conclusion.  Bibliograpy