Japan's Modern Prophet

Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930

AvJohn F. Howes

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Uchimura Kanzô was one of Japan's foremost thinkers, whose ideasinfluenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religiousleaders. He lived at a time of increasing modernization and rapidsocial change. Known as the originator and proponent of a particularly"Japanese" form of Christianity known as mukyôkai, Uchimurastruggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and hislove for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earneda reputation as the most consistent critic of his society and the mostknowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible. Inaddition to teaching and giving public lectures, he wrote numerousbooks and articles -- in both English and Japanese -- edited newspapersand periodicals, and founded several magazines. Through the prism ofthis exceptional man's life, John Howes charts, in this tour deforce, what it meant to live during the introduction of Christianity toJapan.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-01-01
Mått:159 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian Religions and Society
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774811460
Utmärkelser:Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2006

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John F. Howes, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies atthe University of British Columbia, was awarded the Order of the RisingSun by the Government of Japan in 2004.

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This huge, ambitious study is the final product of 50 years of research and reflection, and should become an indispensable first reference for anyone seeking detailed information in English about Uchimura. A welcome addition to the fast-growing body of valuable new writing on Japan. - C.L. Yates, Earlham College (Choice) In researching this masterful work, Howes delved deeply into Uchimura's writings, diaries and letters in order to portray his subject as a passionate yet conflicted man influenced as much by internal pressures as he was by external forces ... With this book, Howes has made an important and detailed contribution to our understanding of Japanese Christians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - Jeff Alexander, the University of British Columbia (Pacific Affairs, vol. 78, no. 4, winter 2005/2006) This long-awaited critical biography of Uchimura, by John Howes, professor emeritus of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, represents over fifty years of dedicated study ... The book is skillfully structure, enabling Howes to link his sensitive analysis of Uchimura's intellectual development to the major events in his life and the world around him. - Helen Ballhatchet, Keio University, Tokyo (International Bulletin of Missionary Research, vol. 30, no. 3, July 2006)

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionPart 1: I Refuse1 Education of a Meiji Samurai2 Budding Civil Servant3 Birth of a Writer4 Justification of Self and of Nation5 Out into the WorldPart 2: The Pact with God6 With Luther Presiding7 The Taught8 The Teaching: Christianity and the Bible9 The Teaching: Institutions and Individuals10 The Last ChancePart 3: I Am Not11 Christ Is Coming12 The Bible and Japan13 The Sage14 Telling Off the West15 Maturing Vipers16 What Is Mukyôkai?Conclusion: Uchimura Kanzô in HistoryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex