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Books on: protestants in japan

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Handbook of Christianity in Japan

Book by Mark R. Mullins; Brill, 2003

Subjects:

Japan--Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Catholics and Protestants attempted to gain a foothold in Okinawa before...visit to Japan in 1853, and...Church in Japan. This group...Yokohama band. In 1877, three...Japanese Protestants to be ordained...1991 ). In the early years Protestants attracted...assumed that Japan must become...
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Social Attitudes in Japan: Trends and Cross-National Perspectives

Book by Masamichi Sasaki, Tatsuzo Suzuki; Brill, 2000

Subjects:

Attitude (Psychology), Japan--Social Conditions--1945---Public Opinion, Public Opinion--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

Social Attitudes in Japan Edited by Masamichi Sasaki and Tatsuzo Suzuki Social Attitudes in Japan Trends and Cross-National Perspectives...Introduction: Empirical Social Research in Japan 1 2. New Directions in the Study...
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A Diplomat's Wife in Japan: Sketches at the Turn of the Century

Book by Mary Crawford Fraser, Hugh Cortazzi, Hugh Fraser; Weatherhill, 1982

Subjects:

Diplomats' Spouses--Great Britain--Biography, Fraser, Hugh--Mrs.--D. 1922, Japan--Description And Travel

Collections: History, Entire Library

A Diplomats Wife in Japan MARY CRAWFORD FRASER Mary Crawford Fraser A Diplomats Wife in Japan Sketches at the Turn of the Century...under the title A Diplomatists Wife in Japan: Letters from Home to Home . The woodblock...
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Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements

Book by Mark R. Mullins; University of Hawaii, 1998

Subjects:

Christian Sects--Japan, Christianity And Culture--Japan, Japan--Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the total number of Protestants and Catholics in Japan, and with scores of...missionaries arrived in Japan, and the churches began...low of about 190,000 in 1942 to over 400,000...gradually for both Protestants and Catholics alike...
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Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

Book by Ian Neary; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Human Rights--Japan, Human Rights--Korea (South), Human Rights--Taiwan

Collections: Entire Library

Ian Neary looks in detail at the history of the introduction of human rights ideas into Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines how, and to what effect, state and society have incorporated the specific international standards on childrens' and patients' rights into legal systems and social ...
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Ian Neary looks in detail at the history of the introduction of human rights ideas into Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines how, and to what effect, state and society have incorporated the specific international standards on childrens' and patients' rights into legal systems and social practice. This comprehensively researched, accessibly written book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian studies, human rights, sociology and politics.
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Journal Articles on: protestants in japan

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Families in Japan: Beliefs and Realities

Journal article by Fumie Kumagai; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 26, 1995

Subjects:

Faith--Social aspects, Family--Japan, Japan--Social aspects, Social change--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

...in various fields in Japan. Christianity, in fact, contributed to the modernization of Japan and is often regarded as a modern way of thought...total population divided fairly evenly between Protestants and Catholics. Perhaps the largest area of...
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G. Sherwood Eddy and the Attitudes of Protestants in the United States Toward Global Mission

Journal article by Rick Nutt; Church History, Vol. 66, 1997

Subjects:

Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of Asia other than Japan these years were the...Missionaries rushed in to evangelize China...he stated powerfully in 1913. A missionary...of the East, like Japan, China, or India...with Chinese students in Japan and the United States...
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Foreigners and Civil Society in Japan

Journal article by Apichai W. Shipper; Pacific Affairs, Vol. 79, 2006

Subjects:

Aliens--Social aspects, Civil society--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...2000, the CBCJ estimated that 407,000 foreigners, or 91 percent of the total believers in Japan, were Catholics. (23) Another 300,000 or so Koreans are Protestants. Second, Christians help foreigners, because they hold an ethical view that all people...
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"Self-Support": the Episcopal Mission and Nationalism in Japan

Journal article by William L. Sachs; Church History, Vol. 58, 1989

Subjects:

Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...that foreigners could be loyal to Japan. Events overtook Episcopal missionaries...Organizations Law of 1939 pressured Protestants to join a union church, the Nihon Kirisuto Kyodan, eventually formed in 1941. 46 Anglicans generally resisted...
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Self-Support: the Episcopal Mission and Nationalism in Japan

Journal article by William L. Sachs; Church History, Vol. 58, 1989

Subjects:

Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...that foreigners could be loyal to Japan. Events overtook Episcopal missionaries...Organizations Law of 1939 pressured Protestants to join a union church, the Nihon Kirisuto Kyodan, eventually formed in 1941. 46 Anglicans generally resisted...

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Magazine Articles on: protestants in japan

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While We're at It

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2001

Subjects:

Religion and sociology--Information services, Religion--Information services

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...conversation ability required." Its not all that unusual in Japan, however, where the ad appeared in Japan Times, the major English Language newspaper...noting that over the thirty years he has been in Japan "Christian-style" weddings have become the norm...
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The Jesuits: In the Making of a World Religion: Simon Ditchfield Looks at the Achievement of Ignatius Loyola and Sees the Society of Jesus, Which He Founded, as the First Organization with a Truly Global Reach

Magazine article by Simon Ditchfield; History Today, Vol. 57, July 2007

Subjects:

Ignatius of Loyola, Saint--History, Ignatius of Loyola, Saint--Influence, Jesuits--History, Jesuits--International aspects, Jesuits--Personalities

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...since by the seventeenth century it was not uncommon for Protestants in the German-speaking lands, desirous of the best education...apostolate of St Thomas). The more civilized peoples of Japan and China then tempted him further east, where he died...
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While We're at It

Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2001

Subjects:

Anscombe, Elizabeth--Conduct of life, Christians--Conduct of life

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...reported on the Aum Shinrikyo sect in Japan, notes that Hanssen is a member of...McBrien of Notre Dame notes that, in an interview, Avery Cardinal Dulles...certain admiration for evangelical Protestants because they "preach the gospel loud...
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The Week

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 52, January 24, 2000

Subjects:

Dole, Elizabeth H.--Political activity, Fonda, Jane--Behavior, Investors--Statistics, Pataki, George--Political activity, Turner, Ted--Behavior, United States--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...misapplication" of the word "celebrants," "which," wrote Burt, "when used to mean celebrators is akin to calling protestors protestants." In time, the fortnightly trip to New York became too much for him. He retired in 1983 and died last month, in Oregon...
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Religion and American Foreign Policy: The Story of a Complex Relationship

Magazine article by Leo Ribuffo; The National Interest, Summer 1998

Subjects:

International relations--Analysis, Religion and international affairs--History, Religion and state--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Catholics were less interventionist than Protestants. Many Irish- and German-American Catholics...same time, few Catholics were pacifists in principle. Episcopalians tended to rally...example, the Doolittle bombing raid on Japan was carried out to raise American morale...

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Newspaper Articles on: protestants in japan

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Religion Finds Fallow Fields in Japan Today; 'Not a Lot of Interest' after Aum Case

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 27, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sometime around A.D. 600. Christianity was brought to Japan in 1549 by Francis Xavier, founder of the Roman Catholic...other Catholic missionary groups, and later with Dutch Protestants, for Japanese converts and influence led to restrictions...
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Embassy Row

Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, December 4, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Protestant leader. Most Protestants suspect Mr. Mitchell...American diplomat in China has died in...Mondale arrived in Japan as U.S. ambassador...many improvements in U.S.-Japan relations but complained...political leaders in Japan increasingly recognize...
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WBC Makes No Cents

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...still rules or the Japan leagues have caught...when everybody is in midseason form...round robin of Protestants against Catholics...South Korea beating Japan or Canada upsetting...cameras during a game in Puerto Rico: "Down...trashed a hotel room in Japan and many of our...
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Passing the Buck; LETTERS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...where the fault lies. In Japan, if you cant park a car...not (Mail). Meanwhile, in her article about Shilpa...shepherd? DO MODERN-DAY Protestants have no connection to...before 1529, but none were Protestants per se until they dissented...two reigning separately in 1378. In 1054, the Great...
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Bin Laden 'Cult Figure' of Pakistani Muslims

Newspaper article by Arnaud De Borchgrave; The Washington Times, March 21, 2001

Subjects:

Pakistan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Muslims is comparable to the strife between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Sectarian violence, exacerbated by...A. Not direct but some linkage, especially with Japan for the next tranche of aid an estimated $1 billion...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: protestants in japan

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Gregory XIII

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on their many missions, particularly in N Europe and in Japan. He proposed the deposition of Queen Elizabeth of England, and he advocated no compromise with German Protestants. He has been much criticized for a public thanksgiving...
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Switzerland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Italy, the United States, Great Britain, and Japan. Government The federal constitution, adopted in 1848 and revised in 1874, assigns specified...the Four Forest Cantons , defeated the Protestants in battle; the Treaty of Kappel (1531) preserved...
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Netherlands

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...classes of the population Catholics and Protestants alike. The struggle for the Low Countries independence began (1562 66) in Flanders and Brabant. The northern...including exclusive privileges in Japan), and captured the major share of the...
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France

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...million. There are smaller numbers of Protestants and Jews. Separation of church and state was made final by law in 1905. The educational level in France...is with other European Union members. Japan, the United States, and China are also...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...In turn, the majority of Christians are Protestants, but of many denominations. The largest...group embraces members (some 61 million in 1999) of the Roman Catholic Church; the...bilateral trade relationship), Mexico, China, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, and South Korea...

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