Research Catalog

Title

Critical readings on Christianity in Japan / edited by Mark R. Mullins.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mullins, Mark

Description

4 volumes (xii, 1420 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

This set presents a selection of the best published articles on Christianity in Japan, addressing the pre-modern period up to the present day.

Alternative Title

Christianity in Japan

Subjects

• Christianity and culture
• Church and state
• Christian sects
• Christianity
• Christianity and culture > Japan > History
• Christianity > Japan
• Catholic Church Japan > History
• Church and state > Japan > History
• Church history
• Japan > Church history
• Christian sects > Japan > History
• Christentum
• Catholic Church
• History

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Volume one. Christianity in early modern Japan. Introduction / Mark R. Mullins -- Attitudes of entry: the Jesuit approach to the Japanese setting / George Elison -- The Jesuit enterprise in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan / M. Antoni J. Üçerler -- Copy to convert: Jesuits' missionary practice in Japan / Alexandra Curvelo -- Historiographical issues in the studies of the "Christian century" in Japan / Ikuo Higashibaba -- The brotherhoods (confrarias) and lay support for the early Christian church in Japan / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa -- Gracia Hosokawa Tama (1563-1600) / Elisabeth Gössmann -- The Christian "nuns" of early modern Japan / Haruko Nawata Ward -- The Jesuits, the devil, and pollution in Japan: the context of a syllabus of errors / J.S.A. Elisonas -- The pro- and anti-Christian writings of Fukan Fabian (1565-1621) / Monika Schrimpf -- Kirishitan Kô by Tadano Makuzu: a late Tokugawa woman's warnings / Bettina Gramlich-Oka -- Secrecy and the transmission of tradition: issues in the study of the "underground" Christians / Peter Nosco -- The Kakure Kirishitan and their place in Japan's religious tradition / Ann M. Harrington -- The English and the control of Christianity in the early Edo period / Timon Screech -- Population surveillance and temple certification, 1651-1709 / Nam-lin Hur -- Keeping the faith: Bakuhan policy towards religions in seventeenth-century Japan / Peter Nosco -- Volume two. Christianity in imperial Japan. The crisis of "conversion" and search for national doctrine in early Meiji Japan / Trent Maxey -- From prohibition to toleration: Japanese government views regarding Christianity 1854-73 / Abe Yoshiya -- Foreign missionaries and Japanese culture in the late nineteenth century: four patterns of approach / Cyril H. Powles -- French Catholic missionaries in Japan in the Bakumatsu and early Meiji periods / Jean-Pierre Lehmann -- Archbishop Nikolai Kasatkin: a Russian evangelist in Japan / Mitsuo Naganawa -- Japanese Christians and American missionaries / John F. Howes -- Nitobe Inazō and the Sapporo band: reflections on the dawn of Protestant Christianity in the early Meiji Japan / George M. Oshiro -- Religious universalism in modern Japan: Unitarians as mediators between intellectuals and the West / Yamaguchi Aki -- Japanese Christian overseas missionary movement during the Meiji period / A. Hamish Ion -- Japanese YMCA cultural imperialism in Korea and Manchuria after the Russo-Japanese War / Jon Davidann -- Christianity in Indonesia under Japanese military rule / Hara Makoto -- The religious propaganda program for Christian churches / Terada Takefumi -- Volume three. Cultural and social dimensions of Christianity in modern Japan. Christianity in the Japanese rural community: acceptance and rejection / Kiyomi Morioka -- Christianity and gender relationships in Japan: case studies of marriage and divorce in early Meiji Protestant circles / Helen Ballhatchet -- Rising up and saving the world: Ishii Jūji and the ethics of social relief during the mid-Meiji period (1880-1887) / Tanya Maus -- Crusading against prostitution: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Meiji Japan / Elizabeth A. Dorn -- Abe Isoo: the utility man / Cyril H. Powles -- Yoshino Sakuzō: the Christian as political critic / Peter Duus -- Tamura Naoomi's The Japanese bride: Christianity, nationalism, and family in Meiji Japan / Emily Anderson -- The church and the state Shinto rites / George Minamiki -- The shrine question / A. Hamish Ion -- "Self-support": the Episcopal mission and nationalism in Japan / William L. Sachs -- Beyond the dark valley: reinterpreting Christian reactions to the 1939 Religious Organizations Law / Hans Martin Krämer -- Ideology and utopianism in wartime Japan: an essay on the subversiveness of Christian eschatology / Mark R. Mullins -- "Another" patriotism in early Shōwa Japan (1930-1945) / Takashi Shogimen -- Volume four. Christianity in postwar and contemporary Japan. MacArthur and the missionaries: God and man in occupied Japan / Lawrence S. Wittner -- Emperors and Christianity / Ben-Ami Shillony -- The historical context of Christianity's development in Japan since 1945 / James M. Phillips -- Impact, congruence, and new equilibrium: a case study of Annaka Church, Gumma Prefecture / Mitsuru Shimpo -- Remembering the dead: change in Protestant Christian tradition through contact with Japanese cultural tradition / David Reid -- Secularization theory and Japanese Christianity: the case of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan / David Reid -- Okinawan shamanism and charismatic Christianity / Ikegami Yoshimasa -- The organisation of the Kakure communities and their relationship to Catholicism / Stephen Turnbull -- Between inculturation and globalization: the situation of Catholicism in contemporary Japanese society / Mark R. Mullins -- Christian theology under feudalism, nationalism and democracy in Japan / Nozomu Miyahira -- Theology after 1970 / Masaya Odagaki -- The theory and practice of inculturation by Father Inoue Yōji: from panentheism to Namu Abba / Yoshihisa Yamamoto -- Recovering Jesus for outcasts in Japan: from a theology of the crown of thorns / Kuribayashi Teruo -- Christianity and women in Japan / Yamaguchi Satoko -- Voices in the wilderness: Japanese Christian authors / Van C. Gessel -- From out of the depths: the Japanese literary response to Christianity / Mark Williams -- The frozen soul: sin and forgiveness in Miura Ayako's Freezing point / Philip Gabriel.

Call Number

JFE 16-1131

ISBN

• 9789004235144 (set : hbk.)
• 9004235140 (set : hbk.)
• 9789004235151 (v. 1 : hbk.)
• 9004235159 (v. 1 : hbk.)
• 9789004235168 (v. 2 : hbk.)
• 9004235167 (v. 2 : hbk.)
• 9789004235175 (v. 3 : hbk.)
• 9004235175 (v. 3 : hbk.)
• 9789004235182 (v. 4 : hbk.)
• 9004235183 (v. 4 : hbk.)

LCCN

2015933138

OCLC

906119861

Title

Critical readings on Christianity in Japan / edited by Mark R. Mullins.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mullins, Mark, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-1131