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Title Xavier's legacies : Catholicism in modern Japanese culture / edited by Kevin M. Doak
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages) : illustrations
Series Asian religions and society series
Asian religions and society series.
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
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. </body> </html>
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Japan -- History
Catholic Church -- Japan -- Influence
Catholic Church -- Social aspects -- Japan
Catholic Church -- History.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social aspects
SUBJECT Japan -- Religious life and customs
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Doak, Kevin Michael.
ISBN 9780774820233
0774820233
9780774820226
0774820225
128305440X
9781283054409