{"title":"Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)","authors":"Rômulo da Silva Ehalt","doi":"10.1163/9789004472839_009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"About 18 years ago [...], a devil entered the body of a heathen and publicly declared he had come from England, and he had come to Japan to teach the devils of Japan how to persecute Christians. [...] since then this poor Church of Japan has been put to shame, and all those who protected the priests and their neighbors were executed and had their possessions taken away; not only those who sheltered and harbored [the missionaries] in their homes, but also ten neighbors of the house where they were harbored suffered the same punishment. [...] the door to that country is closed so tightly that it seems that, if this harsh persecution continues for long, everything will be lost.1","PeriodicalId":102272,"journal":{"name":"Norms beyond Empire","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Norms beyond Empire","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004472839_009","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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About 18 years ago [...], a devil entered the body of a heathen and publicly declared he had come from England, and he had come to Japan to teach the devils of Japan how to persecute Christians. [...] since then this poor Church of Japan has been put to shame, and all those who protected the priests and their neighbors were executed and had their possessions taken away; not only those who sheltered and harbored [the missionaries] in their homes, but also ten neighbors of the house where they were harbored suffered the same punishment. [...] the door to that country is closed so tightly that it seems that, if this harsh persecution continues for long, everything will be lost.1