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"Spirit Matters" is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature. It draws on a variety of literary works, from enormously popular fiction (Miura Ayako's "Hyoten" and "Shirokari Pass" and the novels of Murakami Haruki) to more problematic "serious" fiction (Oe Kenzaburo's "Somersault") to nonfiction meditations on martyrdom and miracles (Sono Ayako's "Kiseki") and the dynamics of religious cults (Murakami's interviews with members of Aum Shinrikyo in "Underground"). The first half of the volume focuses on the work of two women Christian writers, Miura Ayako and Sono Ayako. Combining a decidedly evangelistic bent with the formulas of the popular novel, Miura's 1964 novel "Hyoten" (Freezing Point) and its sequel are entertaining perennial bestsellers, but also treat spiritual issues - like original sin - that are largely unexplored in modern Japanese literature. Sono's "Kiseki" (Miracles) and Miura's "Shiokari Pass" focus on the meaning of self-sacrifice and the miraculous and survey both the paths by which people come to faith and the spiritual doubts that assail them. Perhaps most striking for Western rea

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Author

Gabriel, Philip, Gabriel, J. Philip

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press; Univ of Hawaii Pr; University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824864439

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction