A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan: Evangeli, Alonge..

A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan: Evangeli, Alonge..

Taylor & Francis Ltd

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\n\nA History of Jesuit Missions in Japan\nEvangelization, Miracles and Martyrdom, 1549\u20131614\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail ;

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