1st Edition
A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan Evangelization, Miracles and Martyrdom, 1549–1614
By Guillaume Alonge
Copyright 2023
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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 living saint
2. A martyr without martyrdom
3. The post-mortem career: from failures to the altars
Biography
Guillaume Alonge is Assistant Professor at the University of Turin, Italy .
