Holy Anime!: Japan's View of Christianity

by Patrick Drazen

Christianity has been in Japan for five centuries, but embraced by less than one percent of the population. It's a complicated relationship, given the sudden appearance in Japan of Renaissance Catholicism which was utterly unlike the historic faiths of Shinto and Buddhism; Japan had to invent a word for "religion" since Japan did not share the west's reliance on faith in a personal God. Japan's views of this "outsider" religion resemble America's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761869077
• ISBN13: 9780761869078
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"