December 1959
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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... Reconstructing numbers of conversions in late-19th-century Japan requires piecing together information from a variety of sources that sometimes disagree in the specifics, but some patterns emerge. After the removal of the ban, the church grew so quickly that many missionaries predicted that Japan would become a Christian nation (Iglehart 1959;Thomas 1959;Moffett 1998). Japan's first Protestant church was organized in 1872, and by 1889, there were nearly 40,000 Protestant Christians in Japan (Moffett 1998). ...
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December 1959
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies