One of the world's
oldest and most prestigious press clubs, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of
Japan in Tokyo, will host author Thomas Dabbs for its Book Break event April
14.
Dabbs is author of Genesis
in Japan (Texas Review Press, 2013) and professor of British
literature at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.
His book rises from a
journal of reflections he collected while teaching the Bible to Japanese
university students in Tokyo. It relates the diverse responses to the Bible
that rebounded, subtly but forcefully back to the teacher from these students
-- extraordinary responses, in that they are simple, pure, ordinary, and
entirely disorienting.
The theme of the talk
will be drawn from the main theme of the book, that is, the author will give
examples of how the Japanese penchant toward close reading makes Western
Christianity appear to have an odd, even marginally insane relationship with
the Bible.
The talk, which will
be in English, will feature dinner and a "Meet the Author" cocktail
party. For more information, visit http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/book-breaks/icalrepeat.detail/2014/04/14/990/-/book-break-genesis-in-japan-the-bible-beyond-christianity-by-thomas-dabbs.html
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