Remembering the Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral

When Urakami Cathedral was rebuilt in 1959, many citizens experienced the loss of the ruins as a silencing of Nagasaki’s experience. This paper explores Catholic survivors’ attitudes towards the Cathedral and loss of an important atomic relic, and shows that while they regret the ruins’ disappearanc...

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Main Author: McClelland, Gwyn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2016, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-69
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Urakami-Kathedrale Nagasaki / Reconstruction / Remembrance / Atomic bombing of Nagasaki (motif) / Christian persecution / Symbolics / History 1600-2016
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBM Asia
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Urakami Catholic cathedral dangerous memory persecution atomic bomb
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