Today, about one to two million Japanese are Christians (about one percent of Japan's population), and churches can be found across the country. Many Christians live in western Japan where the missionaries' activities were greatest during the 16th century. A few Christian customs that have ...
Walter Strickland’s sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver. Review Tending and Keeping the Christian Past in an ‘Ahistoric Age’ Christopher Gehrz Why the work of historical stewardship isn’t just for historians. ...
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Japanese Christians in the era of imperialism actively sought to counter Japan's narrow nationalism through hybridization of ‘traditional’ Bushido with muscular Christian ideology. While the nationalists won the struggle in the 1920s and 1930s, today's secularized notion of sportsmanship is shown ...
Writing in Providence, Timothy Cutler identified eighteenth-century political philosopher Edmund Burke as an “Anglican theologian,” principally relevant today for having understood “the theological underpinnings of our social order,” with Burke himse... world history Edmund Burke The Queens Who Shaped...
It is impossible to read without a thrill what was accomplished by the pioneers of Christian missions in the South Seas a nd other early fields; now the tidings of what is being done in India, China, Japan, Korea, Africa and elsewhere, by Christian preaching and education, awaken even ...
The modern dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity in Japan is reaching new depths and insights and is being recognized today as a challenging and promising point of contact between two cultures. This volume is based on the premise that an understanding of the past is important for meaningf...
Decades after dozens of missionary kids suffered physical and sexual abuse at the Christian Academy of Japan (CAJ), mission agency leaders associated with the Tokyo school fell prostrate on the ground to performdogeza,Japan’s deepest form of apology. ...
Samuel Kang was God’s improbable choice to be a leader in the world’s fastest-growing missionary movement. Kang was born in Japan when the Japanese empire was forcing alien Shinto beliefs down Korean throats. At the end of World War II, the Kang family returned to Korea and grew deeply...
“Racism” is a poor word because today, it refers at once to thoughts, attitudes, feeling, and also to actions and policies. Among the latter, it concerns both individual actions and collective actions, and even policies. Some of the policies may be considered to be included in so-called...