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Author: Haruko Nawata Ward ,
Professor Allyson M. Poska ,
Professor Abby Zanger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.740kg
ISBN: 9780754664789
ISBN 10: 0754664783
Pages: 422
Publication Date: 23 March 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'An amazingly learned, well-researched, and in-depth look at women's religious activities in the Christian Century in Japan, including leaders in the Zen Buddhist and Shinto traditions as well as the Japanese women who became Christian teachers and catechists. The book gives a human face to the story of cultural encounters and religious conversion, explores women's activities within and in opposition to Christianity from a global perspective, and offers a startling new explanation for the closing of Japan to the West.' Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 'A monumental achievement! Haruko Ward has revealed a century of forgotten lives and given voice and agency to religious leaders who have been absent too long from our histories. She has shown us, in all their variety and complexity, the female leaders who transgressed and transformed Japan's religious culture. This is more than a history of women or a history of religion. It is a book that will change the way that we think about a crucial and transitional age in the history of Japan.' D. Max Moerman, Columbia University, USA 'Haruko Ward's new book on the unique role played by women in evangelization in early modern Japan breaks new ground in the study of Christian missions in East Asia. Based on an extensive knowledge of primary sources in a number of languages, it is an impressive piece of original scholarship and will become an important reference work for further research.' M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Campion Hall, Oxford, UK 'This very readable volume represents an extraordinary degree of scholarship, drawing on original sources in Portuguese, Japanese and Latin, with secondary material also in German, and working with theoretical and analytic tools from disciplines including history, feminism, theology and ethnology.' Parergon 'This work is a valuable contribution to the history of Christian missionary activity in Asia and to women's studies. It joins a growing number of works that skillfully reexamine historical records written by men with no intention of speaking about women, to unearth details from which effective narratives of the lives, concerns, and accomplishments of long-dead women can be reconstructed. ... the stories Ward relates are riveting, and her book is an example of fine scholarship put to very good use.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This important book opens new directions for further research into women's history and invites a re-examination of the history of the Catholic Church in Japan.' Catholic Historical Review 'In her use of a wide range of sources, Ward has painted very colorful and insightful portraits of these prominent Japanese Kirishtan women, providing an invaluable work for understanding Japan's 'Christian Century'.' Japanese Journal of Religious Studies '... an outstanding study... this book convincingly demonstrates the centrality of women in early modern Japanese Christianity. It is superbly done.' Church History
Author Information
Haruko Ward is Associate Professor of Church History at Columbia Theological Seminary, USA.
