| Christ in Japanese Culture: Theological Themes in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works Contributor(s): Mase-Hasegawa (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004165967 ISBN-13: 9789004165960 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $134.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: Shedding light on a wide range of cross-cultural concerns and encounters, going far beyond narrow theological specialisation, the author argues that any successful process of missiological inculturation demands a serious antholopological consideration of indigenous faith. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: 895.635 |
| Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.77" W x 9.56" (1.31 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This ground-breaking study on the Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku (1923-1996) uniquely combines western and Japanese religious, theological and philosophical thought. The author interprets Endo's central works such as Silence (1966), The Samurai (1980), and Deep River (1996), from a theological point of view as documents of inculturation of Christianity in Japan. Analysing the social and religious context of Japan in a global perspective, the author identifies a central role for koshinto - a traditional Japanese ethos - in Endo's thought on inculturation. Endo's change from a critical to a positive acceptance of the koshinto tradition partly accounts for his move from a pessimistic attitude of Christian inculturation in his early years to the growing theocentric and pneumatic concerns of his later years. Essential for Western readers. |