New wine : the cultural shaping of Japanese Christianity

by David Reid

Paperback, 1991

Publication

Imprint: Berkeley, California : Asian Humanities Press, c1991. Series: Nanzan studies in Asian religions, 2. Responsibility: David Reid. Physical: Text : 1 volume : ix, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, glossary, index.

Call number

History / Reid

Barcode

BK-02711

ISBN

9780895819321

CSS Library Notes

Description: "In the Japanese context, the Christian message is the new wine. For many it makes life convivial and exuberant. But there are others who understandably prefer 'the old wine,' the traditional virtues and accepted ways of being human in Japan. The main title is at once an explicit reference to Christianity and an implicit reference to the Japanese milieu. One of the chief interests of this book is to understand how a religion changes as it moves from one culture to another." -- from author's preface.

Table of Contents: Part 1 a bird's eye view
Japanese religions
Religion and sState in Japan, 1965-1990
Reflections on the path to understanding in religious studies
Part 2 studies in Japanese Christianity
Secularization theory and Japanese Christianity
Remembering the dead
Japanese Christians and the ancestors
Chronology of Japanese social and religious history

FY1992 / FY2015 /

Physical description

ix, 199 p.; 23 cm

Language

Original language

English
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