A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan

ISBN-13: 9781032229775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 152 str.

Guillaume Alonge

Opis

 The book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the history of the Jesuits, Catholic missions and Christianity in Japan.

Spis treści

 

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 martyr without martyrdom

2.     The postmortem career: from failures to the altars

O autorze

Guillaume Alonge is Assistant Professor at University of Turin, Italy .