Haruko Nawata Ward
Ashgate
Hardback
400
Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan. Ward analyzes the experience of nuns witches catechists and sisters in sixteenth-century Japan bringing to light how these women utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism or rejecting the new religion.
Ashgate
Hardback
400
Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan. Ward analyzes the experience of nuns witches catechists and sisters in sixteenth-century Japan bringing to light how these women utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism or rejecting the new religion.