Approaching Silence

Mark W. Dennis is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Texas Christian University, USA. Darren J. N. Middleton is Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is the author of three books, including Theology after Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction (2008), as well as four edited volumes on religion, literature and film.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Silence in the World
Mark W. Dennis (Texas Christian University, USA) and Darren J. N. Middleton (Texas Christian University, USA)

Part One: Background and Reception
1. Before Silence: Stumbling Along with Rodrigues and Kichijiro
Kevin M. Doak (Georgetown University, USA)
2. Silence on Opposite Shores: Critical Reactions to the Novel in Japan and the West
Van C. Gessel (Brigham Young University, USA)
3. The ‘Formality’ of the fumie?: A Re-consideration of the Role of the fumie in Silence
Mark Williams (University of Leeds, UK)
4. Endo and Greene’s Literary Theology
Darren J. N. Middleton (Texas Christian University, USA)
5. Charting Endo’s Catholic Literary Aesthetic
Mark Bosco, S.J. (Loyola University, Chicago, USA)
6. Forbidden Ships to Chartered Tours: Endo, Apostasy, and Globalization
Christopher B. Wachal (Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA)

Part Two: Christianity and Buddhism
7. The Catholic Shift East: The Case of Japan
Christal Whelan (Independent Scholar and Filmmaker)
8. Agape Unbound in Silence and Deep River
Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith (St. Olaf College, USA)
9. Discerning the Marshland of This World: Silence from a Japanese Buddhist Perspective
Dennis Hirota (Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan)
10. A Buddhist Reading of the Blue Eyes of Jesus in Silence
Mark W. Dennis (Texas Christian University, USA)

Part Three: Endo’s Theology
11. Literature as Dohansha in Silence
Jeff Keuss (Seattle Pacific University, USA)
12. Is Abjection a Virtue?: Silence and the Trauma of Apostasy
Dennis Washburn (Dartmouth College, USA)
13. 'And Like the Sea God was Silent’: Multivalent Water Imagery in Silence”
Frances McCormack (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland)
14. Laughter Out of Place: Risibility as Resistance and Hidden Transcript in Silence
Jacqueline Bussie (Concordia College, USA)

Part Four: Teaching Silence
15. Silence in the Classroom
John Kaltner (Rhodes College, USA)

Part Five: Later Adaptations
16. Silence, a play
Steven Dietz
17. Silence, a film
Martin Scorsese

Contributors
For Further Reading
Index