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| Author(s): |
Renata Cabral Bernabé
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-03-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron;
Fernando Torres Londoño;
Janice Theodoro da Silva
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| Advisor: | Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron |
| Abstract | |
In 1549, the first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan to evangelize the natives. They arrived some yearsafter the Portuguese traders, but did not stay under their protection. On the contrary, the missionaries entered the Japanese territory by their selves, while the traders stayed only in the port cities. At that time Japan was emerged in many civil wars in a period called Sengoku Jidai (the country at war). The Jesuits the denomination that hold the monopoly of the Japanese mission until 1593 saw their selves involved in a complicated political plot. As they could not count on any secular protection, they chose to look for the warlords (daimy) protection to accomplish the evangelization of the Japanese people. The only way for that was the convincement of the people that Christianity was the true religion. Nevertheless, even among the Jesuits that went to the Japanese mission, there was not a consensus about the best way to convince the Japanese to become Christians. The Visitor of the Jesuits missions in Asia, Alexandre Valignano, designed a new method called accomodatio, but some Jesuits were against it. Led by the second Superior of the Japanese mission, Francisco Cabral, they claimed that accomodatio was not the best way once it could mislead the neophytes. What they should do, in Cabrals point of view, was to follow strictly the rules of the Society of Jesus. The aim of this essay is to understand these two methods of evangelization and their meaning for both the Jesuits and the Japanese. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/02133-0 - The construction of the catholic mission in Japan in the XVI century |
| Grantee: | Renata Cabral Bernabé |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |