The Jesuits, The Devil, and pollution in Japan. The context of a syllabus of errors
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| contents | The Jesuits, The Devil, and pollution in Japan. The context of a syllabus of errors J.S.A. Elisonas Historia The reports of the Jesuit mission to Japan (1549-c. 1640) are the earliestcomprehensive source of Western knowledge about that country. Within this corpus,the document known as the Summary of the errors in which the heathen of Japanlive and of some heathen sects on which they principally rely (1556) marks a distinctivemoment in the Jesuit representation of Japanese religious life.An early-modern exercise in comparative religion, the Summary - attributedto either of two missionaries, Cosme de Torres or Juan Fernández - classifies andevaluates Japanese religions against an explicit norm: Christianity. Beliefs and practicesthat challenge the norm are identified, often with considerable subtlety of reasoning,as the work of the Devil. If the Japanese, who seemed to embody so manyqualities attributed to the self - a white people, as the missions founder FrancisXavier described them, prudent and talented - nevertheless persisted in ways thepadres found perverse, this was explained, not by constructing them as an alien racewho were corrupt in some organic sense, but rather by locating that corruption inthe workings of a diabolic will.Arrestingly, the Summary defines Shinto as a religion independent ofBuddhism - a designation that only attained the status of social fact in the nineteenthcentury, with the modern states refiguration of Shinto as a nationalist ideology.Nevertheless, the Jesuits were not the only premodern party to argue for this distinction,as references to medieval Japanese sources, including both nativist andBuddhist polemicists, make clear. Instructive similarities as well as differencesemerge from this comparison among Western and Japanese theological arguments. 2000 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100102 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.1 |
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| spellingShingle | The Jesuits, The Devil, and pollution in Japan. The context of a syllabus of errors J.S.A. Elisonas Historia The Jesuits, The Devil, and pollution in Japan. The context of a syllabus of errors J.S.A. Elisonas Historia The reports of the Jesuit mission to Japan (1549-c. 1640) are the earliestcomprehensive source of Western knowledge about that country. Within this corpus,the document known as the Summary of the errors in which the heathen of Japanlive and of some heathen sects on which they principally rely (1556) marks a distinctivemoment in the Jesuit representation of Japanese religious life.An early-modern exercise in comparative religion, the Summary - attributedto either of two missionaries, Cosme de Torres or Juan Fernández - classifies andevaluates Japanese religions against an explicit norm: Christianity. Beliefs and practicesthat challenge the norm are identified, often with considerable subtlety of reasoning,as the work of the Devil. If the Japanese, who seemed to embody so manyqualities attributed to the self - a white people, as the missions founder FrancisXavier described them, prudent and talented - nevertheless persisted in ways thepadres found perverse, this was explained, not by constructing them as an alien racewho were corrupt in some organic sense, but rather by locating that corruption inthe workings of a diabolic will.Arrestingly, the Summary defines Shinto as a religion independent ofBuddhism - a designation that only attained the status of social fact in the nineteenthcentury, with the modern states refiguration of Shinto as a nationalist ideology.Nevertheless, the Jesuits were not the only premodern party to argue for this distinction,as references to medieval Japanese sources, including both nativist andBuddhist polemicists, make clear. Instructive similarities as well as differencesemerge from this comparison among Western and Japanese theological arguments. 2000 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100102 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.1 |
| title | The Jesuits, The Devil, and pollution in Japan. The context of a syllabus of errors |
| topic | Historia |
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