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Xavier's Legacies

Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

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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?

Far from being a relic of the past – something brought to Japan by sixteenth-century missionaries such as Francis Xavier and then forgotten – Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic way for Japanese believers to shape their cultural identities. This volume documents the appeal of Catholicism, not only among farmers and fishers but also among scientists, diplomats, novelists, and members of the imperial household who have found in Catholicism an alternative way to keep “tradition” and negotiate modernity since the late nineteenth century.

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Kevin M. Doak is the Nippon Foundation Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies and sits on the executive board of the Society for Japanese Studies.

Contributors: James R. Bartholomew, Kevin M. Doak, Ann M. Harrington, Mariko Ikehara, Mark R. Mullins, Toshiko Sunami, Mark Williams, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko (with Charles C. Campbell)

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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. --- Makes 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.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Figure and Tables

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction: Catholicism, Modernity, and Japanese Culture

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    Kevin M. Doak
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    1 Catholic Women Religious and Catholicism in Japan: 1872-1940

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    Ann M. Harrington
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    2 Toward a History of Christian Scientists in Japan

    47
    James R. Bartholomew
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    3 Tanaka Ko¯taro¯ and Natural Law

    64
    Kevin M. Doak
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    4 Catholicism and Contemporary Man

    80
    Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko
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    5 Kanayama Masahide: Catholicism and Mid-Twentieth-Century Japanese Diplomacy

    91
    Mariko Ikehara
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    6 Crossing the Deep River: Endo¯ Shu¯saku and the Problem of Religious Pluralism

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    Mark Williams
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    7 An Essay on Sono Ayako

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    Toshiko Sunami
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    8 The Theory and Practice of Inculturation by Father Inoue Yo¯ji: From Panentheism to Namu Abba

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    Yoshihisa Yamamoto
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    9 Between Inculturation and Globalization: The Situation of Catholicism in Contemporary Japanese Society

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    Mark R. Mullins
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    Bibliography

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    Contributors

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    Index

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