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Author Shelton, Joanna R.

Title A Christian in the Land of the Gods : Journey of Faith in Japan
Published Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 304
Summary In November 1877, three months after Emperor Meiji's conscript army of commoners defeated forces led by Japan's famous ""last samurai, "" the Reverend Tom Alexander and his new wife, Emma, arrived in Japan, a country where Christianity had been punishable by death until 1868.A Christian in the Land of the Gods offers an intimate view of hardships and challenges faced by nineteenth-century missionaries working to plant their faith in a country just emerging from two and a half centuries of self-imposed seclusion. The narrative takes place against the backdrop of wrenching change in Japan and Gre
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Subject Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- Missions -- History
SUBJECT Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) fast
Subject Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Japan
Christianity -- Japan -- 20th century
Protestantism -- Japan
Christianity
Missions
Presbyterian Church -- Missions
Protestantism
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781498224918
1498224911