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Ronan, David William.

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Biblical conversion and Japanese ancestral practices: How Japan's church leaders interpret attitudes, actions, direction, and relationship in local churches.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Biblical conversion and Japanese ancestral practices: How Japan's church leaders interpret attitudes, actions, direction, and relationship in local churches./
Author:	Ronan, David William.
Description:	321 p.
Notes:	Chair: Harold Netland.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9826890
ISBN:	0591793040

Biblical conversion and Japanese ancestral practices: How Japan's church leaders interpret attitudes, actions, direction, and relationship in local churches.
Ronan, David William.

Biblical conversion and Japanese ancestral practices: How Japan's church leaders interpret attitudes, actions, direction, and relationship in local churches. - 321 p.

Chair: Harold Netland.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1998.

This research focuses upon how Evangelical church leaders of Japanese local churches discern Biblical conversion in light of Japanese ancestral practices. Drawing upon twelve different Evangelical church traditions, this study sampled ten veteran foreign missionaries and ten Japanese pastors from the Tokyo area in a structured interview using a purposive sample. This researcher traveled to individual church locations and conducted ninety minute interviews with each respondent.

ISBN: 0591793040Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Biblical conversion and Japanese ancestral practices: How Japan's church leaders interpret attitudes, actions, direction, and relationship in local churches.
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520 $a This research focuses upon how Evangelical church leaders of Japanese local churches discern Biblical conversion in light of Japanese ancestral practices. Drawing upon twelve different Evangelical church traditions, this study sampled ten veteran foreign missionaries and ten Japanese pastors from the Tokyo area in a structured interview using a purposive sample. This researcher traveled to individual church locations and conducted ninety minute interviews with each respondent.
520 $a The results indicate that Japanese pastors and missionaries consider "relationship" to be the strongest indicator of biblical conversion, followed by "direction." "Actions" evidenced "relationship" or "direction." Yet, actions occurred most frequently in the data. Japanese national leaders consider burning incense at Buddhist funerals, bowing to an ihai, a dead body, or a photograph of the deceased to be inconsistent with biblical conversion. Foreign missionaries agreed though not as strongly. Some missionaries even participated in Buddhist funeral rites. These findings suggest that national church leaders rather than missionaries take a more strict view of the ancestral practices and responses which might indicate conversion.
520 $a Using Durkheim's definition of religion (1995), Japan's ancestral practices can be regarded as religious. Therefore, actions performed before ancestral objects, burning incense, bowing, making offerings, and attending festivals, relate to Japanese religious practices.
520 $a Lofland and Stark's combined model of conversion (1962), augmented by Kox, Meeus, and Hart's inclusion of a "radical transformation" provided the sociological framework for this study. Gaventa's "pendulum-like" motif (1992) demonstrates the biblical conversion experience of animists (Acts 19) illustrated by separation from their former practices.
520 $a Theologically, the ihai meets Scripture's definition of an idol. Therefore, acts performed before the ihai comprise idolatrous acts. What one does indicates biblical conversion as much as how one feels about an action. Scripture, culture, outside observers, and intent give meaning to behaviors. Personal intent factors least in determining meaning.
520 $a Missiologically, conversion from animism requires a rite of separation and a rite of integration. Japanese converts who confront the ancestral system must separate from it. Integration comes with baptism. Though born-again at the moment of saving faith, church membership and public identification with Christ comes at baptism.
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