The Beginning of Heaven and Earth : : The Sacred Book of Japan's Hidden Christians / / ed. by Christal Whelan.
In 1865 a French priest was visited by a small group of Japanese at his newly built church in Nagasaki. They were descendants of Japan's first Christians, the survivors of brutal religious persecution under the Tokugawa government. The Kakure Kirishitan, or "hidden Christians," had pr...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1996] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 1996 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Manuscript List
- Introduction
- The Beginning of Heaven and Earth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index