"What Is so Amazing about All This?": Buddhist Criticism of Christianity in Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Japan

The first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan in the middle of the sixteenth century. They missionized quite a number of Japanese people but also angered many through their disrespectful behavior and destruction of temples and shrines. Less than 100 years later, Japan closed its borders, persecu...

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Main Author: Lange, Mirja Dorothee (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Hawaii Press 2023
In: Buddhist Christian studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 43, Pages: 163-180
Further subjects:B Dialogue
B Buddhism
B Japan
B Jesuits
B Criticism
B Christianity
B Missiology
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