Toward a Modern Belief: Modernist Protestantism and Problems of National Religion in Meiji Japan From: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Nirei, Yosuke | Copyright Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In this article, I discuss the significance of religious liberalism and reformism of Meiji Protestantism at the turn of the twentieth century. The period, I argue, is crucial to understanding Japanese Protestantism as modernist. The survival and expansion of Christianity and its educational institutions were at stake during the strong nationalist and imperialist consensus in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese war. This essay focuses on the "intellectual" impulses of modernist Protestants, the...

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