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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Asia's Transformations Ser |
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Asia's Transformations Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Editorial notes; Note; Foreword; Notes; Preface: 'dangerous' memory -- political theology of Johann Baptist Metz; Resisting the status quo; Theology and history; Notes; References; Acknowledgements; Part I: Legacy of survival; 1 Fissures; Introduction; Differentiated impacts; 'Two faces' of Nagasaki; Cleansing Urakami; Japanese Christianity and Urakami; Memory, public narrative and history; Notes; References; 2 Survivors; Introduction; Before the bombing |
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Kataribe: voicing the horrorIntersubjectivity; Locating the interviewees; Situations and subjectivities; Questions, faith and religion; Oral history; Notes; References; 3 Bodies; Introduction; Memories of bodies; Dancing Nagasaki, mourning Urakami; Contested 'sacred' spaces; Nishizaka martyrdoms; The unburied dead; Religious and social exclusion; Mission, hidden churches, persecution; Fifth Persecution; 'Please finish me off!'; A mother and child; Urakami returnees; Notes; References; Part II: Reinterpreting the bomb: archetype, monument and cry; 4 Providential atomic bomb?; Introduction |
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Family life, military service, conversion'Spiritualising' the atomic bomb; The silenced landscape; Nagai's influence; Unblemished lambs; A mute community; Critiquing hansai; Recent critics; Catholic responses; A paradigm shift; The hibakusha response; Notes; References; 5 A-bombed Mary; Introduction; Mary the Nazarene peasant; Mary 'survives'; Urakami Mary; Trampled Mary; 'Where is Santa Maria?'; Interpreting Mary of Urakami; From Urakami to Guernica; Compassionate Mary; Redeeming Mary; Notes; References; 6 Urakami Cathedral: a fifth persecution; Introduction; Twentieth century cross |
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Biggest church in the EastCommemorating survival; A fractured community; A torture stone and the cathedral; The profound negative; Debating reconstruction; Pearl Harbour, 'town affiliations' and US fundraising; A living community; Notes; References; 7 Water! Atomic cries and their echoes in the past; Introduction; Mary! Give me water!; Hell at the river; The boy who cried for water; Survivor guilt; Withheld water as persecution; Of pollution and restoration; Notes; References; Part III: Memory's future; 8 Dangerous hope; The cultural lens; I saw, I experienced, I ran away; A new identity |
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The path of a martyrFrom Nagasaki to Auschwitz; Five siblings; A gradual hope; The 'other' in Japan; Divided loyalties; Dangerous politics; Notes; References; 9 Lament, anger and protest; Introduction; Kōji, Akio and Machiko; Illogical death; A jarring memory; Seeking refuge; Social entombment by story-telling; Locating disjuncture; Parallels to Job; Bodily lament; Prejudice and exclusion; From lament to explicit protest; Notes; References; 10 Conclusion; A postscript; Notes; References; Appendix: notes on sources; Archives, memoirs and popular history; Nagai Takashi; Catholic narratives |
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Notes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Catholic Church -- Japan -- History
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Catholic Church -- History.
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Catholic Church fast |
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Catholics -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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Atomic bomb victims -- Religious life -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Collective memory -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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Atomic bomb victims
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Catholics
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Collective memory
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Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives
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Japan
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Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429556517 |
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0429556519 |
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9780429560989 |
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0429560982 |
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9780429565458 |
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0429565453 |
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9780429266003 |
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0429266006 |
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