Volume four. Christianity in postwar and contemporary Japan. Introduction / Philip Gabriel. The frozen soul: sin and forgiveness in Miura Ayako's Freezing point / 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.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.