Cultural conversion of Japanese to Roman Catholicism: understanding japanese religiosity

Ignatius Fumio Ohno

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Cultural conversion of Japanese to Roman Catholicism: understanding japanese religiosity

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Ignatius Fumio Ohno. Cultural Conversion of Japanese to Roman Catholicism: Understanding Japanese Religiosity. Andover Newton Theological School. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ef174f93-af25-4602-8394-91b73c51e7d4.

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I. F. Ohno. Cultural conversion of Japanese to Roman Catholicism: understanding japanese religiosity. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ef174f93-af25-4602-8394-91b73c51e7d4

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Ignatius Fumio Ohno. Cultural Conversion of Japanese to Roman Catholicism: Understanding Japanese Religiosity. Andover Newton Theological School. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ef174f93-af25-4602-8394-91b73c51e7d4.

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Abstract

Using a qualitative interview methodology, this project presents Japanese converts relating the story of their conversion to Roman Catholicism. Japanese view Christianity as a foreign, disjunctive religion. Just as Japan historically syncretized Buddhism and Confucianism, Japanese experience a cultural conversion to Roman Catholicism that inculturates Japanese religiosity into a specifically Japanese Catholicism. Overcoming difficulties of syncretizing, or bringing together a new tradition and a distinctly Japanese culture of religiosity, becomes paramount if a Japanese Christian Church is to thrive. Rahner's vision of world religion and Vatican II, as well as James's and Lonergan's studies of language and religion, present a context for Western Christian tradition.

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