Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality

Awards:   Nominated for Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism (Toshi Prize) 2015
Author:   Michel Mohr
Publisher:   Harvard University, Asia Center
Volume:   351
ISBN:  

9780674066946


Pages:   346
Publication Date:   30 June 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality


Awards

  • Nominated for Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism (Toshi Prize) 2015

Overview

In the late 1800s, as Japanese leaders mulled over the usefulness of religion in modernizing their country, they chose to invite Unitarian missionaries to Japan. This book spotlights one facet of debates sparked by the subsequent encounter between Unitarianism and Buddhism-an intersection that has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Focusing on the cascade of events triggered by the missionary presence of the American Unitarian Association on Japanese soil between 1887 and 1922, Michel Mohr's study sheds new light on this formative time in Japanese religious and intellectual history. Drawing on the wealth of information contained in correspondence sent and received by Unitarian missionaries in Japan, as well as periodicals, archival materials, and Japanese sources, Mohr shows how this missionary presence elicited unprecedented debates on ""universality"" and how the ambiguous idea of ""universal truth"" was utilized by missionaries to promote their own cultural and ethnocentric agendas. At the turn of the twentieth century this notion was appropriated and reformulated by Japanese intellectuals and religious leaders, often to suit new political and nationalistic ambitions.

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Author:   Michel Mohr
Publisher:   Harvard University, Asia Center
Imprint:   Harvard University, Asia Center
Volume:   351
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780674066946


ISBN 10:   0674066944
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   30 June 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Michel Mohr is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

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