| Note | A Companhia de Jesus e os pregadores japoneses : missões jesuíticas e mediação religiosa (1549-1614) / Jorge Henrique Cardoso Leão.
Thesis (Ph.D., History)--Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de História, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (p.276-288).
Orientadora: Elisa Frühauf Garcia.
"Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Filosofia Programa de Pós-Graduação em História"
ABSTRACT (in English in the original)
The spread of the gospel in Japan began with the arrival of the Jesuits in 1549. Owners
of a peculiar culture and a hierarchical social structure, the Japanese became the target
of the admiration of the missionaries, who came to adjectives from White of Asia. Japan
was located in the periphery of the Portuguese empire, which caused serious
complications for evangelization. Apart from the distance from Goa and the lack of
priests and resources, there were cultural, religious and linguistic disparities, along with
political instability on behalf of Sengoku-Jidai. In the sixteenth century, the Jesuits used
the model of cooperation with local elites and different strategies of adaptation as a way
to achieve considerable results for Catholicism in the Kyushu and Honshu archipelagos.
In the daily life, the mishaps were almost always overcome with the help of the natives,
leading Companhia de Jesus to think about the elaboration of a corps of auxiliaries and
catechists, called dógicos, in order to give linguistic and doctrinal support to the parents.
Between 1549 and 1578, the catechists were widely used by the Jesuits, however, their
institutionalization came only from 1579, when Alessandro Valignano instituted the
policy of training these individuals from colleges and seminaries. The institutional
artifice of the visitor showed the predilection for the dógicos, who from the 1580s and
1590s underwent a process of educational improvement with the creation of seminars
and colleges in Japan and Macao. Despite the relative success of the missions, the
beginning of the seventeenth century was marked by retreats in these Christian
communities, as a consequence of the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate. However,
between 1598 and 1614, the period of activity of the Bishop of Funai, D. Luís de
Cerqueira, began the first ordinations of natives in Japan with the creation of the
Nagasaki Diocesan Seminary. In this way, the fear of Christianity's failure due to
political upheavals led the Jesuits to transform the dógicos into a native clergy,
guaranteeing the survival of their communities even at the height of religious
persecution.
Keywords: Jesuits in Japan - Native Clergy - Nanban Period
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