The Jesuit Adaptation In XVI Century Japan: Between the "Historia" of Fróis and The "Cerimonial" of Valignano.

• Grant number: 10/02857-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Adone Agnolin
• Grantee: Mário Scigliano Carneiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 04/10367-0 - Dimensions of the Portuguese Empire, AP.TEM

Abstract

The proposal of this project is to analyse the jesuit evangelization policy in Japan promoted by the new rules of Father Visitator and General Vicar in Ásia, Alessandro Valignano. We will work starting from the chronicle Historia de Japam (1584-1594), where the jesuit father Luis Fróis wrote about the history of the japanese mission from its begining (1549) to the year of 1594. In order to put this chronicle in the largest context of the evangelizaton policy of the Visitator, we will also analyse the O Cerimonial (1583) wrote by Valignano himself with the purpose of establishing his evangelization policy. This research will try to evaluate what would be the rules pointed in the Cerimonial and to verify its fulfillment or variations that we would find in Fróis vision.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CARNEIRO, Mário Scigliano. Jesuit adaptation in Japan at the end of the sixteenth century: between Historia by Fróis and Ceremonial by Valignano. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.