Gwyn McClelland holds a Master of Divinity from the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Japanese history from Monash University. He is the winner of the 2019 John Legge prize for best thesis in Asian Studies, awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).

The voices included in this collective biography are indeed "dangerous," as they disturb the order, calling into question the legitimacy of orthodoxy. As McClelland, drawing upon Johann Baptist Metz’s concept of a dangerous memory, demonstrates in this monograph, such voices are worth studying, precisely because their memories make an opening into the continuity of history, driving a wedge into the monolithic architecture of a discourse. Only out of such disjuncture, can a change for the future emerge.Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul UniversityGwyn McClelland has written a compelling deep history of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Using a framework of the concept of "dangerous memory", and unique and careful oral histories of survivors of the atomic bombing from within the Nagasaki Catholic community, McClelland has drawn together a powerful account of the complex politics surrounding that ‘fissured’ city and community both before and after the bombings. Nagasaki’s Catholic community has a story that has been marginalised for far too long. Through a lens of ‘dangerous memory’, the author and the authentic contributing voices of the kataribe survivors offer a searingly powerful insight to the events of 1945 and the impacts that continue for that community even today. It is a brave and complex story, and one for which I am deeply grateful.Dimity Hawkins (AM), Co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsBy bringing a theological perspective to his oral history of Catholic survivors in the Nagasaki, McClelland questions this stereotypical characterisation of Nagasaki, showing that the survivors’ prayers do not indicate a passive acceptance of the injustices of atomic war but rather, express their ‘dangerous memories’ of the event, troubling official Japanese, American and Catholic accounts of the bombing.Alexander Brown, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japan Studies

• Part 1: Legacy of Survival 1. Fissures 2. Survivors 3. Bodies Part 2: Reinterpreting the Bomb: Archetype, Monument and Cry 4. Providential Atomic Bomb? 5. A-Bombed Mary 6. Urakami Cathedral: A Fifth Persecution 7. Water! Atomic Cries and Echoes of the Past Part 3: Memory’s Future 8. Dangerous Hope 9. Lament, Anger and Protest 10. Conclusion

Gwyn McClelland holds a Master of Divinity from the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Japanese history from Monash University. He is the winner of the 2019 John Legge prize for best thesis in Asian Studies, awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).

The voices included in this collective biography are indeed "dangerous," as they disturb the order, calling into question the legitimacy of orthodoxy. As McClelland, drawing upon Johann Baptist Metz’s concept of a dangerous memory, demonstrates in this monograph, such voices are worth studying, precisely because their memories make an opening into the continuity of history, driving a wedge into the monolithic architecture of a discourse. Only out of such disjuncture, can a change for the future emerge.Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul UniversityGwyn McClelland has written a compelling deep history of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Using a framework of the concept of "dangerous memory", and unique and careful oral histories of survivors of the atomic bombing from within the Nagasaki Catholic community, McClelland has drawn together a powerful account of the complex politics surrounding that ‘fissured’ city and community both before and after the bombings. Nagasaki’s Catholic community has a story that has been marginalised for far too long. Through a lens of ‘dangerous memory’, the author and the authentic contributing voices of the kataribe survivors offer a searingly powerful insight to the events of 1945 and the impacts that continue for that community even today. It is a brave and complex story, and one for which I am deeply grateful.Dimity Hawkins (AM), Co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsBy bringing a theological perspective to his oral history of Catholic survivors in the Nagasaki, McClelland questions this stereotypical characterisation of Nagasaki, showing that the survivors’ prayers do not indicate a passive acceptance of the injustices of atomic war but rather, express their ‘dangerous memories’ of the event, troubling official Japanese, American and Catholic accounts of the bombing.Alexander Brown, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japan Studies

• Part 1: Legacy of Survival 1. Fissures 2. Survivors 3. Bodies Part 2: Reinterpreting the Bomb: Archetype, Monument and Cry 4. Providential Atomic Bomb? 5. A-Bombed Mary 6. Urakami Cathedral: A Fifth Persecution 7. Water! Atomic Cries and Echoes of the Past Part 3: Memory’s Future 8. Dangerous Hope 9. Lament, Anger and Protest 10. Conclusion

Gwyn McClelland holds a Master of Divinity from the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Japanese history from Monash University. He is the winner of the 2019 John Legge prize for best thesis in Asian Studies, awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).

The voices included in this collective biography are indeed "dangerous," as they disturb the order, calling into question the legitimacy of orthodoxy. As McClelland, drawing upon Johann Baptist Metz’s concept of a dangerous memory, demonstrates in this monograph, such voices are worth studying, precisely because their memories make an opening into the continuity of history, driving a wedge into the monolithic architecture of a discourse. Only out of such disjuncture, can a change for the future emerge.Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul UniversityGwyn McClelland has written a compelling deep history of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Using a framework of the concept of "dangerous memory", and unique and careful oral histories of survivors of the atomic bombing from within the Nagasaki Catholic community, McClelland has drawn together a powerful account of the complex politics surrounding that ‘fissured’ city and community both before and after the bombings. Nagasaki’s Catholic community has a story that has been marginalised for far too long. Through a lens of ‘dangerous memory’, the author and the authentic contributing voices of the kataribe survivors offer a searingly powerful insight to the events of 1945 and the impacts that continue for that community even today. It is a brave and complex story, and one for which I am deeply grateful.Dimity Hawkins (AM), Co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsBy bringing a theological perspective to his oral history of Catholic survivors in the Nagasaki, McClelland questions this stereotypical characterisation of Nagasaki, showing that the survivors’ prayers do not indicate a passive acceptance of the injustices of atomic war but rather, express their ‘dangerous memories’ of the event, troubling official Japanese, American and Catholic accounts of the bombing.Alexander Brown, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japan Studies

• Part 1: Legacy of Survival 1. Fissures 2. Survivors 3. Bodies Part 2: Reinterpreting the Bomb: Archetype, Monument and Cry 4. Providential Atomic Bomb? 5. A-Bombed Mary 6. Urakami Cathedral: A Fifth Persecution 7. Water! Atomic Cries and Echoes of the Past Part 3: Memory’s Future 8. Dangerous Hope 9. Lament, Anger and Protest 10. Conclusion