Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Christ in Japanese Culture: Theological Themes in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works

Christ in Japanese Culture: Theological Themes in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works

Mase-Hasegawa, Emi

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004165967
ISBN13: 9789004165960
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 23 2008
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.77 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
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.


Also in

Literary Criticism

View All