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Book SynopsisBy exposing Catholicism’s long-term influence in Japan, this volume disrupts conventional assumptions about tradition, modernity, and Christianity in the East and the West.
Trade ReviewMakes a much-needed contribution to the study of Christianity in Japan...
Xavier's Legacies is a critical contribution and a must-read for serious students ofAsian social and religious studies in the modem period. -- Gaylan Mathiesen * Missiology *
At the end, we have been helped to better understand how Japan, after a long and bitter war, managed to enter the community of democratic nations harmoniously...The vast amount of data gathered together in these pages and the thoughtful commentary make this book a most useful resource. -- Helen J. Ballhatchet, Keio University * Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 67, No. 1 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Catholicism, Modernity, and Japanese Culture / Kevin M. Doak
1 Catholic Women Religious and Catholicism in Japan: 1872-1940 / Ann M. Harrington
2 Toward a History of Christian Scientists in Japan / James R. Bartholomew
3 Tanaka Kotaro and Natural Law / Kevin M. Doak
4 Catholicism and Contemporary Man / Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak and Charles C. Campbell)
5 Kanayama Masahide: Catholicism and Mid-Twentieth-Century Japanese Diplomacy / Mariko Ikehara
6 Crossing the Deep River: Endo Shusaku and the Problem of Religious Pluralism / Mark Williams
7 An Essay on Sono Ayako / Toshiko Sunami (translated and annotated by Kevin M. Doak)
8 The Theory and Practice of Inculturation by Father Inoue Yoji: From Panentheism to Namu Abba / Yoshihisa Yamamoto
9 Between Inculturation and Globalization: The Situation of Catholicism in Contemporary Japanese Society / Mark R. Mullins
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