Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses

List of Illustrations - Chronology - Editors' Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Translations of Christian Terminology into Japanese 16-19th Centuries: Problems and Solutions; S.Kaiser - Early Western-Style Paintings in Japan; M.Cooper - New Perspectives on the Christian Prohibition; O.Sachiyasu - Acculturation among the Kakure Cirishitan: Some Conclusions from the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto; S.Turnbull - Beyond the Prohibition: Christianity in Restoration Japan; J.Breen - Christianity Encounters Buddhism: A Historical Perspective; N.Thelle - The Religion of the West Versus the Science of the West: The Evolution Controversy in Late Nineteenth Century Japan; H.Ballhatchet - Written and Unwritten Texts of the Kakure Kirishitan; C.Whelan - The Social Forms of Japanese Christianity; M.Mullins - From Out of the Depths: The Japanese Literary Response to Christianity; M.Williams - Select Bibliography - Index