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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 view of the "outsider" Islamic faith. Understanding this through the book Orientalism by Edward Said, Patrick Drazen samples depictions of Christianity in the popular Japanese media of comics and cartoons. The book begins with the work of postwar comics master Tezuka Osamu, with results that range from the comic to the revisionist to the blasphemous and obscene.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction; Why this book
Chapter 2: History of Christianity in Japan: It's Complicated
Chapter 3: Christianity in Japanese Popular Culture through the Lens of Said's Orientalism
Chapter 4: Christian References in the Manga of Tezuka Osamu
Chapter 5: Crucifixion in Manga and Anime: The Good, The Bad and the Unreal
Chapter 6: The Exorcists
Chapter 7: Jinguru Beh! Christmas in Manga and Anime
Chapter 8: Christian Weddings in Japan: Just Like In the Movies
Chapter 9: Clergy
Chapter 10: Nuns in Anime/Manga: Sisterhood Is Not So Powerful
Chapter 11: Witch Hunter Robin: Love and Fear and a Side-Trip to Barack Obama
Chapter 12: Japan's Most Famous Christian Martyr: Amakusa Shiro
Chapter 13: Angels and Other Metaphors
Chapter 14: The "Not Safe" Chapter
Atogaki (Afterword)
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