4 • Saving Souls in Japan

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dc.contributor.author	Zampol D’Ortia Linda
dc.title	4 • Saving Souls in Japan
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter discusses the sixteenth-century Jesuit vocabulary of conversion, in Asia and Europe, in light of the importance attributed to saving one’s own soul through the work of saving other people. It then considers the history of the practice of mass baptism in the Japanese mission, and the tension existing between the expectations of the intervention of divine grace, the catechisation carried out by the missionaries, and the outcomes that the Jesuits could observe in the Christian Japanese communities. By analysing the different attitudes that Cabral had towards the conversion of elite and poor Japanese people, it also shows how he believed less and less that his work as missionary could contribute to his own salvation.
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
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-793-7/004
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This chapter discusses the sixteenth-century Jesuit vocabulary of conversion, in Asia and Europe, in light of the importance attributed to saving one’s own soul through the work of saving other people. It then considers the history of the practice of mass baptism in the Japanese mission, and the tension existing between the expectations of the intervention of divine grace, the catechisation carried out by the missionaries, and the outcomes that the Jesuits could observe in the Christian Japanese communities. By analysing the different attitudes that Cabral had towards the conversion of elite and poor Japanese people, it also shows how he believed less and less that his work as missionary could contribute to his own salvation.

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Jan. 31, 2024

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