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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_19177
dc.contributor.author	Zampol D’Ortia Linda
dc.title	2 • The Tail of the Devil: The Vow of Poverty
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter establishes the reasons why the Jesuit headquarters in India believed a visitation to Japan was necessary in the decade of 1560, and then considers the first issue confronted by Cabral in the archipelago: the appropriateness of the clothes used by the local Jesuits. It delineates the history of Christian attitudes towards the dress and the bodies it modified, including an overview of the polemics surrounding Ignatius Loyola’s choice of garments for the Society of Jesus. The missionaries’ attempts to select the correct clothes to facilitate their work of evangelisation in Japan are the focus of the following section. The chapter then analyses the narrative that Cabral created to persuade both his superiors and his fellow missionaries of the need to reintroduce the black cassock instead, the strategies he adopted when his brethren still resisted him, and Cabral’s conclusions regarding the influence of the Devil on the mission.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Religion and Thought
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2024-01-31
dc.dateAccepted	2023-09-25
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-06-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-764-7/2-the-tail-of-the-devil-the-vow-of-poverty/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-793-7/002
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-764-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-793-7
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This chapter establishes the reasons why the Jesuit headquarters in India believed a visitation to Japan was necessary in the decade of 1560, and then considers the first issue confronted by Cabral in the archipelago: the appropriateness of the clothes used by the local Jesuits. It delineates the history of Christian attitudes towards the dress and the bodies it modified, including an overview of the polemics surrounding Ignatius Loyola’s choice of garments for the Society of Jesus. The missionaries’ attempts to select the correct clothes to facilitate their work of evangelisation in Japan are the focus of the following section. The chapter then analyses the narrative that Cabral created to persuade both his superiors and his fellow missionaries of the need to reintroduce the black cassock instead, the strategies he adopted when his brethren still resisted him, and Cabral’s conclusions regarding the influence of the Devil on the mission.

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Jan. 31, 2024

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