03781oam 22006254a 450 991041652220332120200608020818.09780472127979047212797710.3998/mpub.9340282(CKB)4100000011406266(OCoLC)1184511353(MdBmJHUP)muse91940(MiU)10.3998/mpub.9340282(MiAaPQ)EBC6321366EBL7007868(OCoLC)1328134744(AU-PeEL)EBL7007868(MiAaPQ)EBC7007868(ScCtBLL)55b59e18-edcf-4a81-9308-da7fd2528c92(OCoLC)1202567592(ODN)ODN0006091167(EXLCZ)99410000001140626620020806e20021970 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChristian converts and social protest in Meiji Japan /Irwin ScheinerAnn Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,2002.1 online resource (x, 268 p.)Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies ;no. 24Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1970.9780472901937 0472901931 9781929280209 1929280203 Includes bibliographical references and index.Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains) sought to overthrow the old order and whose success in doing so has made the study of the modernization of Japan the prime concern of historians. The history of the Meiji period may have been an overall political and industrial success story, but for a fuller understanding of the conditions of that success it is also necessary to understand "what it was really like" for the members of the old elite to be estranged from the proponents of revolution and what many members did to assure their own social and psychological position in a world they had not expected. In this book the author attempts to show that the impact of the Meiji Restoration destroyed the meaningfulness of the Confucian doctrine for these declasse samurai. Through Christianity, the samurai attempted to revive their status in society by finding a doctrine that offered a meaningful path to power. But in doing so, they had to accept a new theory of social relations. Ultimately, as the convert's understanding of society became totally informed by the Christian doctrine, they accepted a transcendent authority that brought them into conflict with society about them. Therefore, to understand the development of a Christian opposition in Meiji society we must begin with the conversion experience itself.Michigan classics in Japanese studies ;no. 24.Christian converts from ConfucianismJapanSamuraiReligious lifeJapanHistoryRestoration, 1853-1870Christian converts from ConfucianismSamuraiReligious life.305.6HIS000000HIS021000SOC000000bisacshScheiner Irwin639118MiUMiUBOOK9910416522203321Christian converts and social protest in Meiji Japan3084366UNINA