as usual.
8:16 PM
i even forgot what "as usual" is in french...anyway i gotta blog out my thoughts, as usual.
I'm planning to do Christianity. the main question I have to ask is : even though japan is supposedly under a lot of westernizing influence (okay, i'll have to make this one of my background points), that their conversion rate still remains LOW. like the only thing that remains HIGH is the no. of marriages in churches. (anyway that proves that the stigma is low.)
okay i see i see. I have to establish that firstly:
1) Christianity rates are LOW in japan AND THIS IS SURPRISING BECAUSE
a) increase in flow of people, resources, information (globalization) --> a lot of external influence YET it doesn't happen
b) decrease in stigmatization/official freedom of religion --> YET it doesn't happen.
actually a and b sort of interlap and overlap as reasons for why it's surprising.
Okay, after I've established that this is a phenomenon I wouldn't expect given the reasons above, the mainstay of my argument is to argue WHY.
and my arguements WHY is
1) blablablaal (I have three arguments)
I will begin by describing the history of Christianity in Japan. Just as a brief background introduction to know how the state of Christianity has been. How it was entered. (i might go back to this section when I argue later.)
Then as I move into Christianity in the present, I will explain why it's so weird that christianity remains unpopular.
Then I will argue.
Then I will conclude by saying maybe a future direction or what is the general main argument that sort of encompasses everything (sort of like my short-motoori-essay style. )
I dont really know when to write about my context but I'm thinking more of NOW. NOW NOW as in WHY IS IT THAT NOW WHEN WE ARE SO FREE (because my a and b arguments are all on NOW) that Christianity is not accepted popularly.
And also I choose Christianity as an example because it's the only one that there is significant effort made. Actually what I'm interested in is of course islam lah but you always have this grouping of religions - the monotheistic, atheistic, polytheistic ones - so in the Islam-Christian-Jewish group, christianity is the only one. (i need to find proper characterization of this kind of religion.) because jewish and islam not really marked effort so I of course won't use it but since they ahve sort of the same root (need to prove) so I want to see what are the lessons that people from these religions can learn taking from the example of Christianity when they want to da'wah. In essence i guess a DIFFERENT religion.
Question: is it possible or might it be politically incorrect to do a kind of poly vs mono. characterization?
I dunoe. must go find some general books on religion.
Okay! That's it!