The Oppressor’s Dilemma: How Japanese State Policy toward Religion Paved the Way for Christian Weddings

For the last thirty-five years, the majority of Japanese wedding ceremonies have involved Christianity, but scholars have struggled with Christianity’s increasingly prominent place within the Japanese religious landscape. The tendency has been to refute the religiosity of Christian weddings and embr...

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Main Author: LeFebvre, Jesse R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 109-138
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Japan / Christianity / Kokka-Shintō / Irreligiosity / Religious policy / History 1616-2022
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AX Inter-religious relations
BN Shinto
CG Christianity and Politics
KBM Asia
SA Church law; state-church law
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Japanese Christianity
B State policy
B hishūkyō
B Catholic Church of Japan
B Nonreligious
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