In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story Of Suppression, Secrecy And Survival

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story Of Suppression, Secrecy And Survival
ISBN-10
0281075530
ISBN-13
9780281075539
Category
History
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
2016-09-15
Publisher
SPCK
Author
John Dougill

Description

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and God’s apparent silence. Part history, part travelogue, it explores and seeks to explain a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day. For seven generations, Japan’s ‘Hidden Christians’ preserved a faith that was forbidden on pain of death. Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to practise their beliefs today, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Japanese culture that makes it so resistant to Western Christianity?

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