Xavier's Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774820219)

Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan's so-called Christian century? This volume reveals that, far from being a relic of the past - something brought to Japan by missionaries and then forgotten - Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic and alternative way for Japanese believers to maintain "tradition" and negotiate modernity.

Author: Kevin M. Doak
ISBN-10: 0774820217
ISBN-13: 9780774820219
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 22