SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Christian Religious Practices in Early Modern Japan

Abstract:

It is difficult to trace the voices of the Japanese who practised Christianity in early modern Japan because of the lack of sources authored by Japanese laymen. However, it is possible to reconstruct some of their practices through some of the books that the Christian missionaries produced to be memorised or read aloud in ritual and devotional practices, like Orasho no honyaku (1600) and Manuale ad Sacramenta Ecclesia Administranda (Nagasaki 1605).

Bio:

Carla Tronu Montane, gained a PhD in Japanese Religions at SOAS in 2012, and is currently visiting lecturer in the Centre of East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she teaches Japanese religions and Japanese history. She has written her PhD dissertation on the Christian community of Nagasaki (1569-1643) and is currently doing research on sacred space and ritual in Japan.