| Event Name: | Practising Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Symbol, Prayer, and Mirror |
| Description: | This lecture explores the meaning of the popular practice of Christianity in Early Modern Japan, covering the time of the so-called “Christian Century” and the underground period. Following a brief historiographical reflection on Christianity in Japanese religious history, it will first discuss the Japanese use of Christian symbols and show how important it is for our analysis to consider the “local context” in which the Japanese accepted new religious elements from Christianity. It will further discuss two more specific examples. Christian prayer will be reviewed to demonstrate unique forms of continuity and discontinuity/transformation of Christianity in Japan. Christian mirrors will reveal a stimulating fusion of Japanese art and the Christian faith in Christ.
Ikuo Higashibaba is Professor of Comparative Religion at Tenri University, Japan. After he graduated from Tenri University in 1983, he studied at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago (MA) and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley(PhD). He is the author of Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001). |
| Type of Event: | Religious Events |
| Event Agenda: | Professor Ikuo Higashibaba (Tenri University)
Organiser: Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and Japan Research Centre |
| Event Location: | School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | College - School |
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| Directions: | Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G2 |
| Event Start Date | 06-Oct-11 |