Ideology and Christianity in Japan - 1600-1900 - Hardback - 2008

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.
Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 240 pages
Format: Hardback
Serie: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media