Francis Xavier at the Court of Ōtomo Yoshishige: Representations of Religious Disputation between Jesuits and Buddhists in La conversione alla santa fede del re di Bungo giaponese (1703)

Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exotic tales of conversion and martyrdom set in Japan played out upon the Jesuit stages of Europe. It is in this way that Japan’s Christian Century (1549–1639) endured in the Jesuit mind as a source of spiritual and creative inspiration. The devel...

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Main Author: Takao, Makoto Harris (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 451-474
IxTheo Classification:BL Buddhism
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBM Asia
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RD Hymnology
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Jesuits oratorio early music intercultural studies Japanese studies Buddhism missiology early modern history conversion La conversione alla santa fede del re di Bungo giaponese
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