Urakami Memory and the Two Popes: The Disrupting of an Abstracted Nuclear Discourse

Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on the one hand and supported them as deterrents on the other. This paper argues the largely abstracted discourse on nuclear weapons within the World Church has been disrupted by voices of Urakami in Nagasak...

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Main Author: McClelland, Gwyn (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B Pope
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B United States
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B Nuclear Weapons
B Oral History
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