일본의 기독교와 종교풍토 - 엔도 슈사쿠의 기독교문학 『침묵』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study aims to survey the characteristic of Japanese Christianity concerning the Christian literature of Endo Shusaku, where Japanese religion climate and climate in Japan are described in detail, so that I may investigate the cause of remaining in present condition but not spreading widely in spite of the earliest propagation of Christianity in East Asia. In a word, even though Japanese religion climate is based on Shintoism, for a long time, there is occupied a peculiar nature religion of Shintoism as the native faith what is called the faith of the spirit of dead origiened from animism on the bottom of the Japanese. Endo Shusaku likened Japanese soul climate to bog which has swallowed up whatever from outside in his novel [Silence], but it would be sure to comprehend pantheism climate only. The pantheism climate in Japan, was settling The Western Christianity in Japan, at last, made the young believers keep out of faith of Christianity and even lead them to the opportunity to renegade.