Handbook of Japanese Christian Writers
Series: Handbooks on Japanese Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher Amsterdam University Press
- Date of Publication 1 November 2022
- ISBN 9789048558216
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages371 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 754 g
- Language English 450
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Short description:
Although a century and a half of Christian proselytizing has only led to the conversion of about one percent of the Japanese population, the proportion of writers who have either been baptized or significantly influenced in their work by Christian teachings is much higher.
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Although a century and a half of Christian proselytizing has only led to the conversion of about one percent of the Japanese population, the proportion of writers who have either been baptized or significantly influenced in their work by Christian teachings is much higher. The seventeen authors examined in this volume have all employed themes and imagery in their writings influenced by Christian teachings. Those writing between the 1880s and the start of World War II were largely drawn to the Protestant emphasis on individual freedom, though many of them eventually rejected sectarian affiliation. Since 1945, on the other hand, Catholicism has produced a number of religiously committed authors, led by figures such as Endo Shusaku, the most popular and influential Christian writer in Japan to date. The authors discussed in these essays have contributed in a variety of ways to the indigenization of the imported religion.
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1.Prophet of the Inner Life: Kitamura Tokoku (Michael Brownstein); 2. Shimazaki Toson and Christianity: When the Cherries Ripen in the Taisho Period (Irina Holca); 3. Arishima Takeo and Christianity (Leith Morton); 4. Akutagawa Ryunosuke: A Christian Life (Miyasaka Satoru; trans. Mark Williams); 5. Incarnation of the Christian Faith in the Poetry of Yagi Jukichi (Yamane Michihiro, trans. Mark Williams); 6. Hori Tatsuo: The Cross Dyed in Bloody Red and the Little Gods of Ancient Times (Massimiliano Tomasi); 7. Nagai Takashi on Divine Providence and Christian Self-Surrender: Towards a New Understanding of hansai (Anthony Haynes); 8. Dazai Osamu: His Wrestle with the Bible (Nagahama Takuma, trans. Van C. Gessel); 9. Shiina Rinzo: His Two Visages (Nagahama Takuma, trans. Van C. Gessel); 10. From out of the Depths: Shimao Toshio?s Literary Response to Adversity (Mark Williams); 11. Yasuoka Shotaro and Christianity: From Postwar ?Emptiness? to Religious Longing (Yamane Ibuki, trans. Van C. Gessel); 12. Miura Ayako and the Human Face of Faith (Philip Gabriel); 13. Endo Shusaku and the Compassionate Companionship of Christ (Van C. Gessel); 14. Ogawa Kunio: Renewal of Faith and Identity in his Seishomono (Bible Stories) (Ryota Sakurai); 15. Kaga Otohiko: In Search of What Lies Beyond Death (Imai Mari, trans. Van C. Gessel); 16. Sono Ayako: Amor Vincit Omnia (Kevin Doak); 17. Takahashi Takako: Drawing Closer to God Through Literature (Miho Sekino).
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