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Title: Anime, Manga and Christianity: A Comprehensive Analysis (Essay)
Author : Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 232 KB

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Legend has it that back in 1945, shortly after American troops occupied Japan during World War II, a famous Japanese department store--no doubt eager to capitalize on western traditions during the holiday season--set up a display of a life-size Santa Claus hanging from a cross. Whether this event actually happened or not we don't know, but for those who have spent any time in the Land of the Rising Sun this legend certainly has a ring of truth about it. While all cultures practice to some degree what Stuart Hall calls "encoding" (that is, a given culture putting its cultural values into its cultural products) and "decoding" (that is, the same culture reading its own values into foreign cultural products), the modern Japanese are especially famous for embracing anything and everything foreign--religion not the least of which--and transforming it into something ... well, unique, to say the least. One of the most interesting platforms where the Japanese engage in this type of religious transformation or coding-decoding is in anime and manga. Consequently, herein I would like to explore a variety of different anime and manga series which, to be specific now, utilize Christian imagery or themes. This I would like to do first by elucidating the philosophy or theology that is being forwarded by Japanese anime and manga artists and second by comparing and contrasting this philosophy or theology with orthodox beliefs.