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, ...

The lives of early Japanese and Chinese settlers in British Columbia have come to define the Asian experience in Canada. Yet many men travelled beyond British Columbia to settle in small Prairie towns ...

The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, ...

This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of
religion, and art historians to explore some of the most fundamental
challenges that religious groups face as they expand from their
homeland ...

British Columbia is Canada’s most ethnically diverse province. Yet in general we need to know more about the diversity of religions that accompanied immigrants to the province and how they are practised ...

In 1902 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
petitioned the Japanese government to stop rewarding good deeds with
the bestowal of sake cups. Alcohol production and consumption, its
members ...

This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of
the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image
worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many
hesitations ...

Uchimura Kanzô was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers. His ideas
influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious
leaders. The originator and proponent of a particularly
"Japanese" ...

Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred years because
of religious and political instability caused by Christianity. By 1859,
foreign residents were once again living in treaty ports ...