«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2015. Vol. 13

Geopolitical Missions and Ethnoconfessionalism: Japanese Linguistic View of the World

Author(s)
T. M. Gurevich
Abstract

The article discusses the issue of language implementation of geopolitical missionary work in the context of Japanese Shinto-Buddhist syncretism. In Japanese linguistic view Shinto layer is the most powerful one to have had a major impact on the perception of Christianity in Japan.

Keywords
Japan, toleration, Shintoism, Christianity, idioms, linguistic view of the world
UDC
37

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