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Xavier’s Legacies

Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture

Kevin M. Doak,

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Distributed for University of British Columbia Press

Xavier’s Legacies

Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture

Kevin M. Doak,

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.

232 pages | © 2011

Asian Religions and Society

History: General History

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Table of Contents

Introduction: 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

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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