In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians write by John Dougill. This book was released on 2016-09-15. In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and God’s apparent silence. Part history, part travelogue, it explores and seeks to explain a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day. For seven generations, Japan’s ‘Hidden Christians’ preserved a faith that was forbidden on pain of death. Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to practise their beliefs today, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Japanese culture that makes it so resistant to Western Christianity?
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beginning of Heaven and Earth write by Christal Whelan. This book was released on 1996-09-01. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1865 a French priest was visited by a small group of Japanese at his newly built church in Nagasaki. They were descendants of Japan's first Christians, the survivors of brutal religious persecution under the Tokugawa government. The Kakure Kirishitan, or "hidden Christians," had practiced their religion in secret for several hundred years. Sometime after their visit the priest received a copy of the Kakure bible, the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto, "Beginning of Heaven and Earth," an intriguing amalgam of Bible stories, Japanese fables, and Roman Catholic doctrine. Whelan offers a complete translation of this unique work accompanied by an illuminating commentary that provides the first theory of origin and evolution of the Tenchi. Today, the few Kakure Kirishitan communities still in existence view the Tenchi as strange and flawed, expressing a distorted form of Christianity. It is, however, the only text produced by the Kakure Kirishitan that depicts their highly syncretistic tradition and provides a colorful window through which to examine the dynamics of religious acculturation.
The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan
The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan write by Stephen R. Turnbull. This book was released on 1998. The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.
A History of Christianity in Japan: Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox missions
A History of Christianity in Japan: Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox missions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Christianity in Japan: Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox missions write by Otis Cary. This book was released on 1909. A History of Christianity in Japan: Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox missions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Christ's Samurai
Christ's Samurai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christ's Samurai write by Jonathan Clements. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Christ's Samurai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside their earthly allegiances and swear loyalty to a foreign god-emperor, before seeking paradise in terrible martyrdoms. The cult was in open revolt, led, it was said, by a boy sorcerer. Farmers claiming to have the blessing of an alien god had bested trained samurai in combat and proclaimed that fires in the sky would soon bring about the end of the world. The Shogun called old soldiers out of retirement for one last battle before peace could be declared in Japan. For there to be an end to war, he said, the Christians would have to die. This is a true story.
