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In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival Hardcover - 2012
by John Dougill
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From the time the first Christian missionary arrived in Japan in 1549 to when a nationwide ban was issued in 1614, over 300,000 Japanese were converted to Christianity. A vicious campaign of persecution forced the faithful to go underground. For seven generations, Hidden Christians—or Kirishitan—preserved a faith that was strictly forbidden on pain of death. Illiterate peasants handed down the Catholicism that had been taught to their ancestors despite having no Bible or contact with the outside world.
Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to this day to practice their own religion, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Christianity that is so antagonistic to Japanese culture? In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is an attempt to answer these questions. A journey in both space and time, In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians recounts a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day, and offers insights about the tenacity of belief and unchanging aspects of Japanese culture.
Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to this day to practice their own religion, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Christianity that is so antagonistic to Japanese culture? In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is an attempt to answer these questions. A journey in both space and time, In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians recounts a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day, and offers insights about the tenacity of belief and unchanging aspects of Japanese culture.
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- Title In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival
- Author John Dougill
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardcover with J
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, VT
- Date 2012-03-10
- ISBN 9784805311479 / 4805311479
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.12 x 1 in (20.32 x 13.00 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Japan - Church history, Christianity - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011027419
- Dewey Decimal Code 282.520
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"A nonfiction work about devotion, the book is also a lively travelogue. And Dougill is a tireless journeyman and sleuth, going to wherever there is a story or lead. He tracks down descendants of hidden Christians on the island clusters of Amakusa, Goto and Ikitsuki, meets with curators, historians in Shimabara and Nagasaki, engages fisher folk in conversations about history.
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