id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2801pg17c0p Noah Rankins Diplomacy, Proselytization, and Criticism in the Western Encounter: Japanese Religious Groups in the World's Parliament of Religions 1904 .txt text/plain 152 4 15 Using speeches presented by Japanese delegates to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, this paper investigates how non-Western religious organizations were capable of responding to the Western encounter. However, for those who had attained a means of legitimacy, the possibility arose for them to engage in criticism of Western Christianity in both its institutional and state manifestations. cache/2801pg17c0p.txt txt/2801pg17c0p.txt