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Author Howes, John F., 1924-

Title Japan's modern prophet : Uchimura Kanzō, 1861-1930 / John F. Howes
Published Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 445 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Series Asian religions and society series
Asian religions and society series.
Contents 1: I refuse -- Education of a Meiji Samurai -- Budding civil servant -- Birth of a writer -- Justification of self and of nation -- Out into the world -- 2: The pact with God -- With Luther presiding -- The taught -- The teaching: Christianity and the Bible -- The teaching: institutions and individuals -- The last chance -- 3: I am not -- Christ is coming -- The Bible and Japan -- The sage -- Telling off the West -- Maturing vipers -- What is Mukyôkai? -- Uchimura Kanzô in history
Summary "Uchimura Kanzo was one of Japan's foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders. He lived at a time of increasing modernization and rapid social change. Known as the originator and proponent of a particularly "Japanese" form of Christianity known as mukyokai, Uchimura struggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and his love for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earned a reputation as the most consistent critic of his society and the most knowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible. In addition to teaching and giving public lectures, he wrote numerous books and articles - in both English and Japanese - edited newspapers and periodicals, and founded several magazines. Through the prism of this exceptional man's life, John Howes charts, in this tour de force, what it meant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-445) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930.
SUBJECT Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930 fast
Uchimura, Kanzo. idsbb
Uchimura, Kanzo. idszbz
Uchimura, Kanzō. rero
Uchimura, Kanzō swd
Subject Christian converts -- Japan -- Biography
Evangelists -- Japan -- Biography
Christian philosophers.
Christian biography -- Japan
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Christian biography
Christian converts
Christian philosophers
Evangelists
Christentum
Christendom.
Mukyokai.
Christentum -- Japan -- Geschichte -- 1890-1930.
Japan
Japan
Japan -- Christentum -- Geschichte -- 1890-1930.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006372836
ISBN 0774811455
9780774811453
9780774851725
0774851724
1282740814
9781282740815
9786612740817
6612740817