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Hardcover Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice Book

ISBN: 9004122907

ISBN13: 9789004122901

Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice

(Book #16 in the Brill's Japanese Studies Library Series)

When the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier introduced Catholic Christianity to Japan in 1549, it developed quickly in the country. The Japanese called this new religious movement and its believers Kirishitan. This volume explores the popular religious life and culture of the native adherents, which have been so often ignored in conventional studies of Christianity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan.
Subjects included are lay missionaries,...

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