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Books on: jesuits japan

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A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742

Book by Andrew C. Ross; Edinburgh University Press, 1994

Subjects:

China--Church History, Japan--Church History--To 1868, Jesuits--Missions--China--History, Jesuits--Missions--Japan--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Vision Betrayed The Jesuits in Japan and China 1542-1742...authority to forbid even Jesuits from coming to Japan or China via New...or so fast as in Japan, but Christianity, as interpreted by the Jesuits, gained a place among...
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The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth-Century Japan

Book by J. F. Moran; Routledge, 1993

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...number of Jesuits. There were 115 Jesuits in Japan in 1614, the year when all Christian...all four did in fact become Jesuits later, in Japan. 18 Valignano had not wanted...interesting and informative for the Jesuits in Japan, what is needed is a much shorter...
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The Power and Secret of the Jesuits

Book by René Feülöp-Miller, F. S. Flint, D. F. Tait; Viking Press, 1930

Subjects:

Jesuits

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Japanese preacher 78. The Jesuits in Japan 79. Daimyo Nobunaga: the...martyrs of the Jesuit mission to Japan 83. The Jesuit missionary...observatory erected in Peking by the Jesuits 87. The Jesuit Court astronomers...
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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

Book by Francis Parkman; University of Nebraska Press, 1997

Subjects:

Canada--History--To 1763 (New France), Jesuits--Missions--New France--History--17th Century, Wyandot Indians--Missions--New France--History--17th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

Distinguised by Francis Parkman's pictorial style, THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA opens with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632. This study clearly portrays intertribal rivalries and tensions between French and English traders. However, the dramatic pulse of Parkman's narrative ...
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Distinguised by Francis Parkman's pictorial style, THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA opens with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632. This study clearly portrays intertribal rivalries and tensions between French and English traders. However, the dramatic pulse of Parkman's narrative centers on attempts of the Jesuits to befriend, convert, and mediate between the Indian tribes--resulting in great hardship and sometimes martyrdom for the Jesuits.
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A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767

Book by R. B. Cunninghame Graham; W. Heinemann, 1924

Subjects:

Jesuits--Paraguay, Paraguay--History--To 1811

Collections: History, Entire Library

...from the non-judicial and uncritical public which takes all upon trust? From Japan to the interior of Bolivia there is scarcely a country in which the Jesuits have not laboured assidu ; ously, and in which they have not shed their blood freely...

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Journal Articles on: jesuits japan

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Europe through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.

Journal article by Graham Parry; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Europe Through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...of the Portuguese Jesuits in Japan in the sixty years...the authorities in Japan on their return...humanistic role of the Jesuits in the east, for...Christianity viable, the Jesuits had to simplify it...punishment reserved in Japan for the most worthless...
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History, Social Structure and Individualism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Japan

Journal article by Carmi Schooler; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 39, 1998

Subjects:

Individualism--Social aspects, Japan--Social policy, Social economics--Analysis, Social history--Analysis, Social structure--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...successfully carried through by the Tokugawa Shogunate during the first half century of the Edo period. Thus, the Jesuits in Japan were the witnesses and victims of an absolutist counter reformation - different from the one they had in mind, but...
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Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan

Journal article by Melanie Trede; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...set in place a dynasty that would rule Japan until the onset of the modern era in 1868...as well as the narratives of Portuguese Jesuits. The visual adoration of the sacred via...art history in late-nineteenth-century Japan, Watsky questions our value system of...
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In Memoriam: Francisco Radaza Demetrio, 1920-1996

Journal article by Francis C. Madigan; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 55, 1996

Subjects:

Demetrio, Francisco Radaza--Biography, Folklorists--Biography, Jesuits--Practice

Collections: Entire Library

...Japanese bombing he taught music and singing to his young fellow Jesuits. His first teaching position was at the Ateneo de Manila, which...professor at the International Christian University in Mitaka, Japan. In 1980, with a Ford Foundation grant, he visited museums and...
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Sushi, Science, and Spirituality: Modern Japanese Philosophy and Its Views of Western Science

Journal article by Thomas P. Kasulis; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 45, 1995

Subjects:

Japan--Civilization--Western Influences

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...outlined. The first factor is availability. In the sixteenth century, Westernization was offered to Japan primarily via Spanish and Portuguese Jesuits and Franciscans. Following the arrival of the missionaries, there was a moderate amount of trade...

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Magazine Articles on: jesuits japan

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The Jesuits: In the Making of a World Religion: Simon Ditchfield Looks at the Achievement of Ignatius Loyola and Sees the Society of Jesus, Which He Founded, as the First Organization with a Truly Global Reach

Magazine article by Simon Ditchfield; History Today, Vol. 57, July 2007

Subjects:

Ignatius of Loyola, Saint--History, Ignatius of Loyola, Saint--Influence, Jesuits--History, Jesuits--International aspects, Jesuits--Personalities

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...civilized peoples of Japan and China then tempted...in the Americas. Jesuits reached Florida in...their foundation, the Jesuits had also reached...East first Xavier in Japan in the 1540s and...as elsewhere, the Jesuits made full use of...statuettes. By 1583, in Japan, a seminary of indigenous...
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J. S. Bach in Japan

Magazine article by Uwe Siemon-Netto; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2000

Subjects:

Bach, Johann Sebastian--Influence, Classical music--Religious aspects, Japanese--Religious aspects, Musicians--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...thing they did not learn at the Tobu Gallery: Western music managed to survive the persecution. The Jesuits had introduced Gregorian chant to Japan and built organs from bamboo pipes. They trained Japanese children so well in handling the queen of...
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One World Is Not Enough: They May Have Embarked in Search of Souls to Save, but the Jesuit Missionaries and Explorers Returned with a Wealth of Geographical Knowledge

Magazine article by Jonathan Wright; Geographical, Vol. 79, June 2007

Subjects:

Discoveries (in geography)--History, Discovery and exploration--History, Missionaries--History, Missionaries--Travel

Collections: Entire Library

...distant nations", exotic birds and skeletons, the porcelain of Japan and China, "ivory works, curiously turned", or even "flour and...During the 18th century, however, everything went wrong for the Jesuits. The high priests of the Enlightenment and an intimidating array...
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The God of Silence: Shusaku Endo's Reading of the Passion

Magazine article by William T. Cavanaugh; Commonweal, Vol. 125, March 13, 1998

Subjects:

Christianity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Endo, Shusaku--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Martyrdom--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Silence (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the perils that await him. Rodrigues is haunted, and feels himself pulled toward Japan, by a vivid vision of the face of Christ. Endo compels us to admire the Jesuits willingness to face up to any torture for the sake of the gospel, and we have no...
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Invasion of a Cornfield

Magazine article by Suzanne Westfall; American Theatre, Vol. 9, January 1993

Subjects:

Cultural relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...conversion" of the Japanese by Portuguese Jesuits (and the subsequent martyrdom in the early...of the atomic bomb, the reemergence of Japan as an economic force and, finally, the...as the Dutch Ambassador, the missionary Jesuits and the colonial governors, and van Gogh...

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Newspaper Articles on: jesuits japan

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How a 16th-Century Englishman Landed in Japan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 19, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...influence of the Jesuits, who had arrived in Japan five decades before...well as by the Jesuits. He trod a risky...environment in Japan, and he did so...expulsion of the Jesuits under the anti...their affairs in Japan; "a sorry picture...
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Religion Finds Fallow Fields in Japan Today; 'Not a Lot of Interest' after Aum Case

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 27, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...which came via Korea sometime around A.D. 600. Christianity was brought to Japan in 1549 by Francis Xavier, founder of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Rivalry with other Catholic missionary groups, and later with Dutch Protestants...
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Research Shows Power of Education

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 2, 2007

Subjects:

Education

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...lands with the Gospel, early Jesuits such as Francis Xavier traveled to India, Japan and China, and in addition...freely give" (Matthew 10:8), the Jesuits made it a policy not to charge...Clark, traveled to Hokkaido, Japan, and founded the Sapporo Agricultural...
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The Man Who May Soon Be Driving GM Away from US

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 6, 2006

Subjects:

Automobile industry, Compagnie Generale des Etablissement Michelin, General Motors Corp., Ghosn, Carlos, Nissan Motor Company Ltd., Regie Nationale des Usines Renault, Tire industry, Transportation equipment industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of GM. "Carlos Ghosn is an agent of change. He did things in Japan nobody thought could be done. GM needs management, product and...returned to Lebanon when he was six and he was educated by French Jesuits in Beirut until he left for France aged 17. After studying engineering...
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Dive Fiesta in Bohol

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Philippines bagged various awards in the recent Marine Diving Fair in Japan, including the Best Diving Areas, Best Diving Resort Hotel and...known as the oldest stone-church in the Philippines built by the Jesuits in 1595. This ancient massive edifice retained its century-old...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jesuits japan

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Jesus, Society Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...missionaries was St. Francis Xavier (see also missions ); his work in the East was continued by a host of Jesuits. The mission in Japan was wiped out by persecution in the early 17th cent., but when Japan was reopened to the West in the 19th cent...
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Ignatius of Loyola, Saint

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...leader, with headquarters in Rome, until his death. Although the Jesuits became a major force in the Counter Reformation , the society...opened in Europe during his lifetime, and missions were begun in Japan, India, and Brazil. He was dominated all his life by a desire...
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Nobunaga

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to supply his foot-soldiers with muskets. The early Jesuits in Japan gained Nobunagas respect and, thereby, his permission...discontented generals before the unification of all Japan, a task that was completed by Hideyoshi and Ieyasu...
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Northern Mariana Islands

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Islands). They were renamed the Marianas by Spanish Jesuits who arrived in 1668. Nominally a possession of...The islands belonging to Germany were seized by Japan in 1914 and were mandated to Japan by the League of Nations in 1920. U.S. forces...
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Missions

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sent its missionaries with the conquerors. The Franciscans and Jesuits were the most important orders in Mexico. In the late 18th and...countries, was founded (1865) by J. H. Taylor. The opening of Japan by treaties in 1858 offered an opportunity to introduce foreign...

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