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Sectarian Value Consciousness Of The Japanese Seventh-Day Adventists, Minoru Hirota
Sectarian Value Consciousness Of The Japanese Seventh-Day Adventists, Minoru Hirota
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The objective of this study was to find how the sectarian values of the SDA church were assimilated among the Japanese SDA church members. In order to clarify the characteristics of the sectarian values, their origin and contents were discussed in the first part of this study. It was concluded that the SDA value system contained three sub-value systems, -- namely, the eschatological ethics of the Advent movement, the pietism of the rivivalistic [sic] tradition, and the rural fundamentalism of the Mid-West. Some factors in the Japanese value system were discussed in relation to the assimilation of the sectarian values, …