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Japan's Modern Prophet

Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930
  • John F. Howes
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007

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Uchimura Kanzô was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders. He lived at a time of increasing modernization and rapid social change. Known as the originator and proponent of a particularly “Japanese” form of Christianity known as mukyôkai, Uchimura struggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and his love for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earned a reputation as the most consistent critic of his society and the most knowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible. In addition to teaching and giving public lectures, he wrote numerous books and articles -- in both English and Japanese -- edited newspapers and periodicals, and founded several magazines. Through the prism of this exceptional man’s life, John Howes charts, in this tour de force, what it meant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan.

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John F. Howes, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Government of Japan in 2004.

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This long-awaited critical biography of Uchimura, by John Howes, professor emeritus of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, represents over fifty years of dedicated study ... The book is skillfully structure, enabling Howes to link his sensitive analysis of Uchimura’s intellectual development to the major events in his life and the world around him. --- In researching this masterful work, Howes delved deeply into Uchimura’s writings, diaries and letters in order to portray his subject as a passionate yet conflicted man influenced as much by internal pressures as he was by external forces ... With this book, Howes has made an important and detailed contribution to our understanding of Japanese Christians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. --- This huge, ambitious study is the final product of 50 years of research and reflection, and should become an indispensable first reference for anyone seeking detailed information in English about Uchimura. A welcome addition to the fast-growing body of valuable new writing on Japan.

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Illustrations

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    Preface and Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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  • I Refuse
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    Education of a Meiji Samurai

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    Budding Civil Servant

    44
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    Birth of a Writer

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    Justification of Self and of Nation

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    Out into the World

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  • The Pact with God
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    With Luther Presiding

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    The Taught

    181
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    The Teaching: Christianity and the Bible

    203
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    The Teaching: Institutions and Individuals

    219
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    The Last Chance

    237
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  • I Am Not
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    Christ Is Coming

    257
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    The Bible and Japan

    280
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    The Sage

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    Telling Off the West

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    Maturing Vipers

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    What Is Mukyôkai?

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    Conclusion: Uchimura Kanzô in History

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    Chronology

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    Glossary

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    Notes

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    Selected Bibliography

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    Index

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