Japanese Catholicism Abroad: The Mission to the Nikkei in Brazil

Authors

  • Rafael Shoji

Keywords:

Catholicism, mission, Japanese immigrants, Nikkei

Abstract

The article deals with an active mission among Japanese immigrants in Brazil, including the support of the Japanese government and the Japanese Catholic Church. The article rejects the hypothesis of an easy accommodation of Catholicism in Japan and suggests that for a proper analysis of the process one has to take into account the specific character of the missionaries activities as well the latent dispute between the nationalist Shintoism and the Brazilian Catholicism.

Author Biography

Rafael Shoji

Pesquisador associado ao Institute for Religion and Cultura, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan; colíder do grupo CERAL, PUC-SP

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012): História da Religião - Perspectivas Culturalistas

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Seção Temática

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