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

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.
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Charts the introduction of Christianity to Japan through the life of Uchimura Kanzô, was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders.
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Preface

Introduction

Part 1: I Refuse

1 Education of a Meiji Samurai

2 Budding Civil Servant

3 Birth of a Writer

4 Justification of Self and of Nation

5 Out into the World

Part 2: The Pact with God

6 With Luther Presiding

7 The Taught

8 The Teaching: Christianity and the Bible

9 The Teaching: Institutions and Individuals

10 The Last Chance

Part 3: I Am Not

11 Christ Is Coming

12 The Bible and Japan

13 The Sage

14 Telling Off the West

15 Maturing Vipers

16 What Is Mukyôkai?

Conclusion: Uchimura Kanzô in History

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774811453
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
740 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
464

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Biografisk notat

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.