Two Japanese Christian Heroes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251116904

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Two Japanese Christian Heroes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johannes Laures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Catholics
ISBN : UIUC:30112117746427

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Two Japanese Christian Heroes: Justo Takayama Ukon and Gracia Hosokawa Tamako by Johannes Laures Pdf

Author : Johannes Laures, Ph.D.
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462913275

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Two Japanese Christian Heroes by Johannes Laures, Ph.D. Pdf

This true story of Christian martyrdom takes place in feudal Japan. The Christian world will always marvel how in less than two generations the Gospel seed struck such deep roots in Japan that thousands of coverts were ready to lay down their lives for Christ. True it is that many Japanese martyrs died for their faith are now canonized and beatified. Among many who did not obtain the crown of martyrdom there are not a few, both men and women, who, by their heroic virtue, were an inspiration to their contemporaries. Among the most outstanding are Justo Takayama Ukon and Gracia Hosokawa Tamako, to whom these pages are devoted. Father Laures describes vividly and accurately in these stories of Two Japanese Christian Heroes the trials and hardships of the early Catholic fathers and of their converts, their deep faith and the great spiritual strength that fortified their amazing endurance. In addition, he depicts with great insight the background of the old feudal days, the personal relationship of samurai to their lords, to their wives and to their families, as well as the political and social conditions of those days.

Author : Joseph M. Kitagawa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 023151509X

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Religion in Japanese History by Joseph M. Kitagawa Pdf

Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II.

Author : Samuel Hugh Moffett
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331635

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A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II by Samuel Hugh Moffett Pdf

The story of Christianity in the West has often been told, but the history of Christianity in the East is not as well known. The seed was the same: the good news of Jesus Christ for the whole world, which Christians call "the gospel." But it was sown by different sowers; it was planted in different soil; it grew with a different flavor; and it was gathered by different reapers. It is too often forgotten that the faith moved east across Asia as early as it moved west into Europe. Western church history tends to follow Paul to Philippi and to Rome and on across Europe to the conversion of Constantine and the barbarians. With some outstanding exceptions, only intermittently has the West looked beyond Constantinople as its center. It was a Christianity that has for centuries remained unashamedly Asian. A History of Christianity in Asia makes available immense amounts of research on religious pluralism of Asia and how Christianity spread long before the modern missionary movement went forth in the shelter of Western military might. Invaluable for historians of Asia and scholars of mission, it is stimulating for all readers interested in Christian history. --

Author : Haruko Nawata Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351871815

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Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 by Haruko Nawata Ward Pdf

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government's commitment to the eradication of Christianity in the mid-seventeenth century, this book outlines how women provided crucial leadership in the spread, nurture, and maintenance of the faith through various apostolic ministries. The author's research on the religious backgrounds of women from different schools of late medieval Japanese Shinto-Buddhism sheds light on individual women's choices to embrace or reject the Reformed Catholicism of the Jesuits, and explores the continuity and discontinuity of their religious expressions. The book is divided into four sections devoted to an in-depth study of different types of apostolates: nuns (women who took up monastic vocations), witches (the women leaders of the Shinto-Buddhist tradition who resisted Jesuit teachings), catechists (women who engaged in ministries of persuasion and conversion), and sisters (women devoted to missions of mercy). Analyzing primary sources including Jesuit histories, letters and reports, especially Luís Fróis' História de Japão, hagiography and family chronicles, each section provides a broad understanding of how these women, in the context of misogynistic society and theology, utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues, creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism. The inclusion of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese texts, many available for the first time in English, and the dramatic conclusion that women were largely responsible for the trajectory of Christianity in early modern Japan, makes this book an essential reading for scholars of women's history, religious history, history of Christianity, and Asian history.

Author : Dave Jackson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Christian martyrs
ISBN : 9780842334853

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Christian Heroes by Dave Jackson Pdf

Readers will discover the remarkable stories of those who have suffered for the cause of Christ throughout the course of history. This volume reveals what inspired the great heroes of faith and drove them to give their all.

Author : Jennes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004618480

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History of the Catholic Church in Japan from Its Beginnings to the Early Meiji Era (1549-1873) by Jennes Pdf

Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004644861

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The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States by Helen Hardacre Pdf

This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.

Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9004109811

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The Postwar Developments of Japanese Studies in the United States by Helen Hardacre Pdf

This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.

Author : Samuel Lee, superintendent, Bristol Township School District
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761849505

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Rediscovering Japan, Reintroducing Christendom by Samuel Lee, superintendent, Bristol Township School District Pdf

Japan's Christian history and cultural roots are examined from an alternative perspective. Lee analyzes cultural, religious and linguistic evidence to argue that Christianity was introduced to Japan through the Lost Tribes of Israel, converted to Christianity through the missionary efforts of the Assyrian Church of the East around A.D. 500.

Author : Jozef Rogala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136639234

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A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English by Jozef Rogala Pdf

Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.

Author : Jack Seward
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462900305

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Strange But True Stories from Japan by Jack Seward Pdf

Strange but True Stories from Japan is a fascinating collection of vignettes, ranging from historical to the personal. Here you will be exposed to the goings-on of Americans serving time in Japanese prisons and the many who claimed the identity of Tokyo Rose. And learn about the bizarre habits of the eels that roam the Chikugo River. In this eclectic and, well, strange, book you'll relive-from a distance-Kamakura's hara-kiri bloodshed and discover the surprising fate of the armless geisha, Tsuma-kichi. Seward also weaves touching memoir pieces between chapters that recount hilarious instances of fractured English and shocking-to-the-average-American Japanese cuisine. Written with an eye and ear for the theatrical and for the rhythm of Japanese life, this delightful but serious romp through modern Japan brings Seward's wide and varied cultural and military background to center stage.

Author : Karl Heinrich Menges,Nelly Naumann
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Altaic languages
ISBN : 344704179X

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Language and Literature by Karl Heinrich Menges,Nelly Naumann Pdf

Author : Raphaële Garrod,Yasmin Haskell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004385191

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Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas by Raphaële Garrod,Yasmin Haskell Pdf

This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions.