University of British Columbia Press

John F. Howes, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies atthe University of British Columbia, was awarded the Order of the RisingSun by the Government of Japan in 2004.;

Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinoharaare both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at McMasterUniversity. Neil McMullin is the general editor ofBuddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation books, and professor in the Departmentof Religion at the University of Toronto.;

William D. Coleman is CIGI Chair in Globalizationand Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs anda professor in the Department of Political Science at the University ofWaterloo.

Contributors: A. Claire Cutler, Daniel Gorman, AnnaGreenspan, Jasmin Habib, Eva Mackey, Sharlene Mollett, Susan M.Preston, Scott Prudham, Austina J. Reed

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Alison R. Marshall is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Brandon University.

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Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan's so-called Christian century? This volume reveals that, far from being a relic of the past--something brought to Japan by missionaries and then forgotten--Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic and alternative way for Japanese believers to maintain "tradition" and negotiate modernity.

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