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dc.contributor.authorScheiner, Irwin
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-03T13:54:51Z
dc.date.available2020-09-03T13:54:51Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20200903_9780472901937_14
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41569
dc.description.abstractNowhere 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMichigan Classics in Japanese Studies
dc.subject.otherVeterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics
dc.titleChristian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.9340282
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889
oapen.imprintU of M Center For Japanese Studies
oapen.series.number24
oapen.pages279
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oapen.review.commentsThe proposal was selected by the acquisitions editor who invited a full manuscript. The full manuscript was reviewed by two external readers using a double-blind process. Based on the acquisitions editor recommendation, the external reviews, and their own analysis, the Executive Committee (Editorial Board) of U-M Press approved the project for publication.


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