Ideology and Christianity in Japan: 1600-1900 (Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian History and Politics)

by KiriParamore (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $151.86

  Traces the 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. This book is suitable for students of Japanese history, religion, and politics.