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A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan: Evangelization, Miracles and Martyrdom, 1549–1614: Young Feltrinelli Prize in the Moral Sciences

Autor Guillaume Alonge
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2023
In the aftermath of the religious crisis triggered by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church set out to conquer faithful in new territories. The first missionaries to arrive in Japan were the Jesuits who were forced to adopt a different type of evangelization, with a bottom-up rather than a top-down approach. This volume shows that Japan turned out to be a land of experimentation and development of a global Catholicism, as well as an unprecedented laboratory of encounter between political, scientific and religious cultures in the age of the first globalization. It analyzes the different conversion strategies developed by the Jesuit fathers toward various groups, including samurai, Buddhist bonzes and Japanese peasants. A key step was the appropriation of sacred space by the missionaries: first in a violent way with the construction of large crosses and the destruction of temples, pagodas and pagan idols, then through strategies more flexible and accommodating of replacing pre-existing cultural practices. To be attractive, the Jesuit fathers had to compromise with local culture and spirituality, but they were also forced, in some way, to simplify and modify their very way of understanding and living Christianity. This book also reflects on the reasons for the failure of this ambitious Catholic conversion project: the hostility of the Japanese ruling class, the irreducibility of a different culture and spirituality, but also, if not above all, the rise of internal rivalries in Catholicism between Jesuits, Franciscans and Dominicans. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the history of the Jesuits, Catholic missions and Christianity in Japan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032229775
ISBN-10: 1032229772
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Young Feltrinelli Prize in the Moral Sciences

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

 
Introduction
      I.         Preaching a foreign God
1.     Missionary violence
2.     Christ’s samurai
3.     From persecutions to martyrdom
 
    II.         Planting Crosses
1.     The conquest of sacred space
2.     Symbol of a suffering God
 
  III.         The Miraculous Tree
1.     The cross in the trunk
2.     Christianizing ancient cults
 
  IV.         The Wood of Martyrdom
1.     Crosses of blood
2.     The Japanese Roses of Nagasaki
 
    V.         The Pope’s Samurai: Takayama Ukon
1.     A martyr without martyrdom
2.     The postmortem career: from failures to the altars

Notă biografică

Guillaume Alonge is Assistant Professor at the University of Turin, Italy .

Descriere

 The book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the history of the Jesuits, Catholic missions and Christianity in Japan.