Research Catalog

Title

Japan's modern prophet : Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930 / John F. Howes.

Author

Howes, John F., 1924-

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

xvi, 445 p. : ill., map, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Uchimura Kanzo 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 mukyokai, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Asian religions and society series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Asian religions and society series

Subject

• Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930
• Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930
• Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
• Geschichte 1890-1930
• Christian converts > Japan > Biography
• Evangelists > Japan > Biography
• Christian philosophers
• Christian biography > Japan
• Convertis chrétiens > Japon > Biographies
• Prédicateurs > Japon > Biographies
• Philosophes chrétiens
• Biographies chrétiennes > Japon

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies (form)
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-445) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1: I refuse -- Education of a Meiji Samurai -- Budding civil servant -- Birth of a writer -- Justification of self and of nation -- Out into the world -- 2: The pact with God -- With Luther presiding -- The taught -- The teaching: Christianity and the Bible -- The teaching: institutions and individuals -- The last chance -- 3: I am not -- Christ is coming -- The Bible and Japan -- The sage -- Telling off the West -- Maturing vipers -- What is Mukyôkai? -- Uchimura Kanzô in history.

ISBN

0774811455

LCCN

9780774811453

OCLC

• 60670210
• SCSB-11091273

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library