Christianity in Early Modern Japan

Christianity in Early Modern Japan
Author: Ikuo Higashibaba
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004122901

This volume provides a new history of Christianity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan by depicting the world of ordinary Japanese Christians. It examines their religious expressions, as well as textual expositions given to them, within the context of Japanese religious culture.

Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions

Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions
Author: Paul L. Swanson
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2005-10-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780824830021

For updates online, visit the Nanzan Guide site at Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. The Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions combines, for the first time in any language, state-of-the-field theoretical and critical discussions with concrete resources students and scholars need to conduct research on Japanese religions. Even seasoned scholars typically approach their research in an unsystematic manner, becoming familiar with a particular area of inquiry while remaining largely unaware of what exists in the rest of the field. This inefficient method hinders particularly less-experienced researchers and circumscribes their lines of inquiry. The Nanzan Guide provides both beginners and specialists with a reference that will serve as a basic introduction to Japanese religions and allow them to conduct research more proficiently and in greater depth. Overlapping and thought-provoking chapters, written by leading specialists, offer a variety of perspectives on the complicated and multifaceted field of Japanese religions. The essays are divided into four sections: religious traditions (Japanese religions in general, Shinto, Buddhism, folk religion, new religions, Christianity); the history of Japanese religions (ancient, classical, medieval, early modern, modern, contemporary); major themes (symbolism, ritual and the arts, literature and scripture, state and religion, geography and environment, intellectual history, gender); and "practical" essays (finding references and using libraries, working with archive collections, conducting fieldwork). A chronology of religion in Japanese history is also provided.

The Buddhist Dead

The Buddhist Dead
Author: Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0824830318

In its teachings, practices and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms is centrally concerned with death and the dead. This title offers a comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma.

Deus Destroyed

Deus Destroyed
Author: George Elison
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

'George Elison's exuberant style, his amazing polyglot skills, and his overwhelming erudition make for fascinating reading. I believe this work will be accepted as a major contribution not just to this phase of history in Japan and the history o the Christian church but also other broader and very up-to-date problems of the meeting of cultures.'

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1985-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0140080988

From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary’s remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created—four images derived from the events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circulated among members of the Ming dynasty elite. A rich and compelling narrative about a fascinating life, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci is also a significant work of global history, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China.

Journey to the East

Journey to the East
Author: Liam Matthew BROCKEY
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674028813

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.

Japanese Confucianism

Japanese Confucianism
Author: Kiri Paramore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107058651

This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.

Localizing Paradise

Localizing Paradise
Author: David Max Moerman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

"This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for performance, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano's particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."--BOOK JACKET.