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| Author(s): |
Renata Cabral Bernabé
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-10-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron;
Bruna Dutra de Oliveira Soalheiro Cruz;
Giuseppe Marino;
Antonio Genivaldo Cordeiro de Oliveira;
Janice Theodoro da Silva
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| Advisor: | Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron |
| Abstract | |
archipelago, in 1549, inaugurated the so-called Christian Century in Japan. That was an eventful period in Japanese History: almost uninterrupted civil wars stroke the country for almost a century and the generals who were able to put an end to the continuous warfare and finally unify Japan Oda Nobunaga e Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not make their offspring successors to the positions they achieved. In the end, the Tokugawa house took the power and inaugurated the military regime that would become known as Tokugawa Bakufu and would last for the next two and a half centuries. In order to make this new regime possible, some new legitimizing structures were forged. As a result, Christianity was banned, and the Iberian kingdoms expelled and forbidden inside the archipelago. The European missionaries witnessed all this process and sought until the very end to negotiate with these powers, in an attempt to save the Christian mission. The Society of Jesus was the Catholic order that most worked in Japan. For more than four decades it held the monopoly over the Japanese mission. In 1593, however, the Spanish Franciscans began their activity in the archipelago, despite the Jesuit opposition. What this thesis aims to understand, through the writings of these missionaries and some works of the Japanese about Christianity, is how Jesuits and Franciscans developed the Christian mission in the context of the unification of Japan, the way the Japanese appropriated this Christianity and the reaction it caused in intellectual circles inside and outside the Bakufu. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/02510-9 - Japanese reactions to the Christianism in the XVI-XVIIth century Japan |
| Grantee: | Renata Cabral Bernabé |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |