Japans Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930 - Couverture souple

Howes, John F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774811463 ISBN 13 : 9780774811460

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774811463
• ISBN 13: 9780774811460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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• Personne responsable: non disponible