Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality

Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 357
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781684175277
ISBN-13 : 1684175275
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality by : Michel Mohr

Download or read book Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality written by Michel Mohr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late 1800s, as Japanese leaders mulled over the usefulness of religion in modernizing their country, they chose to invite Unitarian missionaries to Japan. This book spotlights one facet of debates sparked by the subsequent encounter between Unitarianism and Buddhism—an intersection that has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Focusing on the cascade of events triggered by the missionary presence of the American Unitarian Association on Japanese soil between 1887 and 1922, Michel Mohr’s study sheds new light on this formative time in Japanese religious and intellectual history. Drawing on the wealth of information contained in correspondence sent and received by Unitarian missionaries in Japan, as well as periodicals, archival materials, and Japanese sources, Mohr shows how this missionary presence elicited unprecedented debates on “universality” and how the ambiguous idea of “universal truth” was utilized by missionaries to promote their own cultural and ethnocentric agendas. At the turn of the twentieth century this notion was appropriated and reformulated by Japanese intellectuals and religious leaders, often to suit new political and nationalistic ambitions."


Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality Related Books

Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Michel Mohr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-11 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In the late 1800s, as Japanese leaders mulled over the usefulness of religion in modernizing their country, they chose to invite Unitarian missionaries to Japa
Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Garrett L. Washington
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christians have never constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectu
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time thro
The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Jeff Schroeder
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Reacting to nineteenth-century forces of colonialism and globalization, Buddhist reformers across Asia strove to modernize Buddhist teachings, practices, and in
Buddhism and Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Orion Klautau
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Japan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and thought were d