Women Religious Leaders in Japan s Christian Century 1549 1650 1st Edition by Haruko Nawata Ward ISBN 131523369X 9781315233697

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ISBN 10: 131523369X 
ISBN 13: 9781315233697
Author: Haruko Nawata Ward

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government’s commitment to the eradication of Christianity in the mid-seventeenth century, this book outlines how women provided crucial leadership in the spread, nurture, and maintenance of the faith through various apostolic ministries. The author’s research on the religious backgrounds of women from different schools of late medieval Japanese Shinto-Buddhism sheds light on individual women’s choices to embrace or reject the Reformed Catholicism of the Jesuits, and explores the continuity and discontinuity of their religious expressions. The book is divided into four sections devoted to an in-depth study of different types of apostolates: nuns (women who took up monastic vocations), witches (the women leaders of the Shinto-Buddhist tradition who resisted Jesuit teachings), catechists (women who engaged in ministries of persuasion and conversion), and sisters (women devoted to missions of mercy). Analyzing primary sources including Jesuit histories, letters and reports, especially Luís Fróis’ História de Japão, hagiography and family chronicles, each section provides a broad understanding of how these women, in the context of misogynistic society and theology, utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues, creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism. The inclusion of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese texts, many available for the first time in English, and the dramatic conclusion that women were largely responsible for the trajectory of Christianity in early modern Japan, makes this book an essential reading for scholars of women’s history, religious history, history of Christianity, and Asian history.

Women Religious Leaders in Japan s Christian Century 1549 1650 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
PART 1: NUNS
Preface to Part 1
2 Hibiya Monica (c. 1549–c. 1577): Virgem of Sakai
3 Naitō Julia (c. 1566–28 March 1627): Superiora
4 The Beatas of Manila (1615–1656): Visionaries
Epilogue to Part 1
PART 2: WITCHES
Preface to Part 2
5 Ōtomo-Nata Jezebel (d. 15 February 1587): Priestess of Hachiman
6 Marriage and Divorce in Catholic Japan: Ōtomo Sōrin and his Marital Conflict
7 Jezebel the Witch
8 Jezebel versus the Church (1577–1587)
Epilogue to Part 2
PART 3: WOMEN CATECHISTS
Preface to Part 3
9 Hosokawa Tama Gracia (1563–25 August 1600): Scholar-Teacher
10 The Women Catechists
11 Tama Gracia in the Network of Women Against Abuse
12 Releasing Kirishitan Women Apostles from Captivity
Epilogue to Part 3
PART 4: SISTERS
Preface to Part 4
13 Justa of Nagasaki and the Sisters of the Misericórdia
14 Elder Women of the Marian Confrarias
Epilogue to Part 4
15 Conclusion
Glossary

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