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<blockquote data-quote="FireDragon76" data-source="post: 70908018" data-attributes="member: 330042"><p>Understanding the author's background would probably be helpful too. Shusaku Endo was born into a Buddhist family but converted to Roman Catholicism as a young adult. He studied in university then moved to Paris to continue to study, where he hoped to be surrounded by a vibrant Christian culture (he was naive). But he was disappointed by the hollowness and lack of spirituality in Europe. Finding the world spiritually barren, with a religion that did not fully speak to his own culture, he sought out to try to find a way to make sense of Jesus Christ within his own experience of being Japanese- a country that has largely rejected Christianity in favor of Buddhism. That is what Silence is really about. It is about finding a more compassionate, almost maternal image of Jesus in the "swamp" of a world that has found him irrelevant or useless.</p><p></p><p>He was also struggling with the moral failure of Japan during and after WWII. He's trying to deal with the fact that in his mind, the Japanese have problems dealing with moral absolutes, and they are inherently humanistic, all to deal with a society that is heavily embedded in shame dynamics, where atonement for shame can be very costly (Japan has very high suicide rates). Endo sees a need for a Jesus with a human face that understands their failure and shame so that they can embrace a universe with moral absolutes and human dignity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireDragon76, post: 70908018, member: 330042"] Understanding the author's background would probably be helpful too. Shusaku Endo was born into a Buddhist family but converted to Roman Catholicism as a young adult. He studied in university then moved to Paris to continue to study, where he hoped to be surrounded by a vibrant Christian culture (he was naive). But he was disappointed by the hollowness and lack of spirituality in Europe. Finding the world spiritually barren, with a religion that did not fully speak to his own culture, he sought out to try to find a way to make sense of Jesus Christ within his own experience of being Japanese- a country that has largely rejected Christianity in favor of Buddhism. That is what Silence is really about. It is about finding a more compassionate, almost maternal image of Jesus in the "swamp" of a world that has found him irrelevant or useless. He was also struggling with the moral failure of Japan during and after WWII. He's trying to deal with the fact that in his mind, the Japanese have problems dealing with moral absolutes, and they are inherently humanistic, all to deal with a society that is heavily embedded in shame dynamics, where atonement for shame can be very costly (Japan has very high suicide rates). Endo sees a need for a Jesus with a human face that understands their failure and shame so that they can embrace a universe with moral absolutes and human dignity. [/QUOTE]
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