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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung By exposing Catholicism’s long-term influence in Japan, this volume disrupts conventional assumptions about tradition, modernity, and Christianity in the East and the West. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Catholicism, Modernity, and Japanese Culture / Kevin M. Doak1 Catholic Women Religious and Catholicism in Japan: 1872-1940 / Ann M. Harrington2 Toward a History of Christian Scientists in Japan / James R. Bartholomew3 Tanaka Kotaro and Natural Law / Kevin M. Doak4 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 Ikehara6 Crossing the Deep River: Endo Shusaku and the Problem of Religious Pluralism / Mark Williams7 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 Yamamoto9 Between Inculturation and Globalization: The Situation of Catholicism in Contemporary Japanese Society / Mark R. MullinsBibliographyContributorsIndex...
