Navigating Deep River
New Perspectives on Sh’saku End”s Final NovelAn interdisciplinary dialogue with Sh’saku End”s last novel offering new perspectives on Japanese culture, Christian doctrine, Hindu spiritualities, and Buddhist worldviews. In Navigating Deep River, Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton have curated a wide-ranging discussion of Sh’saku End”s final novel, Deep River, in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India’s holy Ganges in search of spiritual as well as existential renewal. Navigating Deep River evaluates and probes End”s decades-long search to find the words to explain Transcendent Mystery, the difficult tension between faith and doubt, the purpose of spiritual journeys, and the challenges posed by the reality of religious pluralism in an increasingly diverse world. The contributors, including Van C. Gessel who translated Deep River into English in 1994, offer an engaged and patient exploration of this major text in world fiction, and this anthology promises to deepen academic appreciation for End’, within and beyond the West. At Texas Christian University, Mark W. Dennis is Professor of East Asian Religions. At Texas Christian University, Darren J. N. Middleton is John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion. They are the coeditors of Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Sh’saku End”s Classic Novel. Dennis is also the translator of Prince Sh’toku’s Commentary on the ‘r’m’l’ Sutra, and Middleton has written and edited many other books, including George Eliot: Illuminated by the Message. ISBN: 9781438477978, 143847797X
