Jesus and Granny: A Question of Allegiance in Japan

By Mariana Nesbitt

For those who love Jesus and the people of Japan Granny and Jesus: A Question of Allegiance gets to the thorniest question in missions all over the world - the importance of our ancestors and the necessity to give allegiance to Jesus. Mariana Nesbitt's love of language, culture and long experience struggling with the missiological enigma of Japan, provided the impetus for her dissertation: Japanese Ancestor Practices: A Contextualised Teaching Tool. Her in-depth understanding of the culture and strong theological background, has equipped her for this invaluable book. She and her husband Jim served cross-culturally with OMF International in Japan for 25 years. The Christian in Japan is faced with attending Christian services related to funerals and other rites of passage on the one hand, then ceremonies for relatives and friends who adhere to Buddhist culture, on the other. What to do?

This book is a sociological, theological and spiritual handbook, designed for missionaries, mission organizations, churches, Christian Universities/Colleges and every Christian who is interested in reaching Japanese with the gospel. Professors of missions will see how to guide students in biblical background and practical ways to humbly lead those who are at a crisis point in a dual system. The reader will gain insight into what the Japanese Christian is grappling with and information to help guide them to a God-honoring, truly Japanese life-style. Nesbitt presents: - Japanese Religion - the Bible and Japanese Funeral Rites - Importance of the Family - Dual Systems - Japanese Identity - Loyalty and Allegiance to the King.

She has produced an invaluable handbook of Japanese primary source material, especially useful for those who cannot read Japanese. Nesbitt is also the author of Jesus for Japan: Bridging the Cultural Gap to Christianity, Japanese Redemptive Analogies and The Word Tsumi. A Japanese Problem in Translating and Understanding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D32DW2KY
• ISBN13: 9798323754342
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"