Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Monograph | A Failing Mission?
Chapter | Introduction

Introduction

Abstract
This chapter introduces two key concepts discussed in this monograph, failure and salvation, and the connection that is attributed to them by sixteenth-century Jesuit missionaries, especially in the Asian missions. It then delineates the scope of the research, its primary sources, and the structure of the monograph.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: June 21, 2023 | Accepted: Sept. 25, 2023 | Published Jan. 31, 2024 | Language: it


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