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Author : Johannes Laures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Catholics
ISBN : UIUC:30112117746427
Author : Johannes Laures, Ph.D.
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462913275
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 : Haruko Nawata Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351871815
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 : Samuel Hugh Moffett
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331635
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 : Jennes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1973-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004618480
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004644861
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 : Raphaële Garrod,Yasmin Haskell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004385191
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.
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9004109811
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 : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226467092
Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.
Author : Donald Frederick Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0226467325
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Author : Jozef Rogala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136639234
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 : Massimo Leone
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110229523
Saints and Signs analyzes a corpus of hagiographies, paintings, and other materials related to four of the most prominent saints of early modern Catholicism: Ignatius of Loyola, Philip Neri, Francis Xavier, and Therese of Avila. Verbal and visual documents – produced between the end of the Council of Trent (1563) and the beginning of the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623) – are placed in their historical context and analyzed through semiotics – the discipline that studies signification and communication – in order to answer the following questions: How did these four saints become signs of the renewal of Catholic spirituality after the Reformation? How did their verbal and visual representations promote new Catholic models of religious conversion? How did this huge effort of spiritual propaganda change the modern idea of communication? The book is divided into four sections, focusing on the four saints and on the particular topics related to their hagiologic identity: early modern theological debates on grace (Ignatius of Loyola); cultural contaminations between Catholic internal and external missions (Philip Neri); the Christian identity in relation to non-Christian territories (Francis Xavier); the status of women in early modern Catholicism (Therese of Avila).
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English imprints
ISBN : PSU:000030001121
Author : Kristina R. Huber,Kathryn Sparling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015043022584
This exhaustive bibliography contains more than 2,300 annotated entries on the lives of women in Japan. It includes books and book chapters, articles in scholarly journals and popular magazines, and published conference papers. The authors have diligently researched databases, bibliographies, and indexes, and have based their detailed annotations on a close examination of the works cited. The volume lists works published in English from 1841 to the present, and a particularly significant feature is the inclusion of literary works by Japanese women. The book is further balanced by material on non-Japanese women living in Japan. All materials are available in the United States through standard interlibrary loan sources. A valuable introduction provides detailed instructions for using the volume. The bibliography is divided into a number of broad sections on the public and private lives of women, and entries in each section are grouped in more specific categories covering home life, politics, education, religion, careers, the arts, and other areas. The sections on literature briefly introduce the lives and works of poets and prose writers, listing their individual works available in English translation. A concluding section provides access to reviews and overviews of scholarship on women in Japan. The extensive author, title, and subject indexes make this book of tremendous value to researchers in a wide range of disciplines.
Author : Jozef Jennes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015008566070