Xavier's legacies : Catholicism in modern Japanese culture /
Xavier's legacies : Catholicism in modern Japanese culture /
edited by Kevin M. Doak.
- Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
- 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages) : illustrations
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- Asian religions and society series .
- Asian religions and society series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
Catholicism, modernity, and Japanese culture / Catholic women religious and Catholicism in Japan : 1872-1940 / Towards a history of Christian scientists in Japan / Tanaka Kōtarō and natural law / Catholicism and contemporary man / Kanayama Masahide : Catholicism and mid-twentieth-century Japanese diplomacy / Crossing the deep river : Endō Shūsaku and the problem of religious pluralism / An essay on Sono Ayako / The theory and practice of inculturation by Father Inoue Yōji : from panentheism to Namu Abba / Between inculturation and globalization : the situation of Catholicism in contemporary Japanese society / Kevin M. Doak -- Ann M. Harrington -- James R. Bartholomew -- Kevin M. Doak -- Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak and Charles C. Campbell -- Mariko Ikehara -- Mark Williams -- Toshiko Sunami (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak) -- Yoshihisa Yamamoto -- Mark. R. Mullins.
Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan's so-called "Christian century"? This volume reveals that, far from being a relic of the past - something brought to Japan by missionaries and then forgotten - Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic and alternative way for Japanese believers to maintain "tradition" and negotiate modernity.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
Catholicism, modernity, and Japanese culture / Catholic women religious and Catholicism in Japan : 1872-1940 / Towards a history of Christian scientists in Japan / Tanaka Kōtarō and natural law / Catholicism and contemporary man / Kanayama Masahide : Catholicism and mid-twentieth-century Japanese diplomacy / Crossing the deep river : Endō Shūsaku and the problem of religious pluralism / An essay on Sono Ayako / The theory and practice of inculturation by Father Inoue Yōji : from panentheism to Namu Abba / Between inculturation and globalization : the situation of Catholicism in contemporary Japanese society / Kevin M. Doak -- Ann M. Harrington -- James R. Bartholomew -- Kevin M. Doak -- Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak and Charles C. Campbell -- Mariko Ikehara -- Mark Williams -- Toshiko Sunami (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak) -- Yoshihisa Yamamoto -- Mark. R. Mullins.
Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan's so-called "Christian century"? This volume reveals that, far from being a relic of the past - something brought to Japan by missionaries and then forgotten - Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic and alternative way for Japanese believers to maintain "tradition" and negotiate modernity.