Xavier's LegaciesXavier's Legacies
Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
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eBook, 2011
Current format, eBook, 2011, , All copies in use.eBook, 2011
Current format, eBook, 2011, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsJapan 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.