Xavier's legacies : Catholicism in modern Japanese culture / edited by Kevin M. Doak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doak, Kevin Michael.

Series:

Asian religions and society series.

Asian religions and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Japan--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Japan--Influence.

Catholic Church--Social aspects--Japan.

Christianity--Japan.

Christianity.

Japan--Religious life and customs.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Catholicism, modernity, and Japanese culture / Kevin M. Doak

Catholic women religious and Catholicism in Japan : 1872-1940 / Ann M. Harrington

Towards a history of Christian scientists in Japan / James R. Bartholomew

Tanaka Kōtarō and natural law / Kevin M. Doak

Catholicism and contemporary man / Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak and Charles C. Campbell

Kanayama Masahide : Catholicism and mid-twentieth-century Japanese diplomacy / Mariko Ikehara

Crossing the deep river : Endō Shūsaku and the problem of religious pluralism / Mark Williams

An essay on Sono Ayako / Toshiko Sunami (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak)

The theory and practice of inculturation by Father Inoue Yōji : from panentheism to Namu Abba / Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Between inculturation and globalization : the situation of Catholicism in contemporary Japanese society / Mark. R. Mullins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-05440-X

9786613054401

0-7748-2023-3

OCLC:

750236188