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Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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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 LuA s FrA(3)is' HistA(3)ria de
JapAGBPo, 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.
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