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Neilson, Reid L.

Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901-1924

Salt Lake City

University of Utah Press

2010

"In 1901 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent its first missionaries to Japan. Just over 20 years later, the Church temporarily retreated from evangelizing in Asia. In Early Mormon Activities in Japan, 1901-1924, author Reid L. Neilson sheds light on why those first representatives were sent to Japan, how they functioned as strangers in a strange land, and what led to the churchs brief withdrawal from Japan and the rest of East Asia. He argues that the same nineteenth-century LDS theology, practices, and traditions that gave rise to the early LDS Japan Mission in 1901 were paradoxically also responsible for the eventual demise of the mission in 1924. Utilizing a case study of the equally ill-fated 1854 LDS mission to China, Neilson works to provide an understanding of why the standard LDS missionary approach of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was so poorly suited for evangelizing non-Christian, non-Western peoples. The unvaried sense of evangelic propriety and practices hindered Mormon missionaries from adapting their message to the new and incredibly different cultures encountered in East Asia. This floundering on the part of church leaders and laity to adapt to the linguistic and cultural differences of Japan resulted in fewer conversions than in other contemporary LDS mission fields, and caused the LDS Japan Mission to struggle in comparison with other Protestant missionary efforts among the Japanese. Those interested in comparative mission history, the rise of Mormonism and the international LDS church, or early modern East Asian history will find that Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901-1924 offers an extensive account of a not oft-mentioned point in Mormon history." [Publishers abstract]

Missiology, Asia, East
China
Asia, East, China
Non-Mormons, relations with, 19th century
International relations
Welfare
Non-Mormon churches
Missiology, proselyting materials
International church
Bible, use and influence
Missiology, maps
Asia, East
Missiology, Asia
Immigrants, Asian
Sports and recreation
Comparative religion, Protestantism
Doctrinal history, millenarianism
Music, hymns & hymnals
Administrative history, financial
Japan
Asia, East, Japan
World Parliament of Religions
Cultural geography
Disasters, response to
Book of Mormon, editions and translations

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