Titlebook: Japan and Christianity; Impacts and Response John Breen (Lecturer in Japanese Studies),Mark Wil Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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inter-disciplinary research has had a profound effect on the take up of digital technology in the wider community. It shows that a practice-based action research approach to case studies of artist residencies e978-1-4471-7434-9978-1-4471-7367-0Series ISSN 2195-9056 Series E-ISSN 2195-9064

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Introduction,Western ‘contribution’. Equally, however, there are dangers in being over-sensitive to charges of ethnocentrism. The initial stage in the encounter between Christianity and Japanese culture — that is the period between 1549 and 1639 when Catholicism was disseminated by European missionaries — offers

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,Translations of Christian Terminology into Japanese 16–19th Centuries: Problems and Solutions,panese soil in 1549 in order to preach the gospel, a few years after Portuguese traders were shipwrecked there. Xavier’s two-year stay in the country led to a concentrated attempt by the Jesuits, and later Spanish Franciscans, to convert the Japanese to Christianity. Hugely successful (converts are

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Acculturation among the ,: Some Conclusions from the , as the secret Bible of the underground Christians of Japan, who kept the faith alive between the expulsion of foreign priests in 1614 and the granting of religious freedom in 1873. So successful were the . (secret Christians), that when European missionaries returned in 1865 many groups of them cho

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Christianity Encounters Buddhism in Japan: A Historical Perspective,stants talk of the World Council of Churches and its dialogue programmes, which have developed since the 1950s, Roman Catholics emphasise the new attitudes introduced by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and Japanese Buddhists readily respond to the challenges, engaging in exciting encounters

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