Women religious leaders in Japan's Christian century, 1549-1650
By: by Haruko Nawata Ward.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780754664789
Subjects: Women in Christianity -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Church history -- To 1868
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nuns; title: Hibiya Monica (c. 1549-c. 1577): virgem of Sakai; title: Naito Julia (c. 1566-28 March 1627): superiora; title: The Beatas of Manila (1615-56): visionaries; title: Witches; title: Otomo-Nata Jezebel (d. 15 February 1587); title: Priestess of hachiman; title: Marriage and divorce in Catholic Japan:; title: Otomo Sorin and his marital conflict; title: Jezebel the Witch; title: Jezebel Versus the Church (1577b 1587); title: Women catechists; title: Hosokawa Tama Gracia (1563b 25 August 1600): scholar-teacher; title: The women catechists; title: Tama Gracia in the network of women against abuse; title: Releasing Kirishitan women apostles from captivity; title: Sisters; title: Justa of Nagasaki and the sisters of the Misericórdia; title: Elder women of the Marian Confrarias.