BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Naitō Julia and the Miyaco no Bicuni X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261005T181802Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_1881605 DTSTART:20150409T230000Z DTEND:20150410T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Once a Jôdo Nun\, Now a Jesuit Catechist\n\nSUMMARY\n\nHaruko Nawata Ward\, Associate Professor of Church History at Columbia Theologica l Seminary and author of Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Cent ury\, 1549-1650\, will share her research on the fascinating figure Naitō Julia. Julia\, who was once abbess of a Pure Land Buddhist convent\, beca me a successful evangelist for the Jesuit mission in Japan. Ward will use Fucan Fabian's 1607Myōtei mondō to explore how Julia and her community o f Christian nuns may have understood the differences between Buddhism\, Sh into\, Confucianism\, Daoism\, and Christianity in early 17th century Japa n. \n\nFlyer | Please RSVP online\n\n \n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nAbstract\n\nStan dard historiography of the church in Kyoto during the Christian Century (1 549-1650) does not mention the remarkable leader\, Naitō Julia\, once an abbess of a Jōdo convent\, who became a successful evangelist for the Jes uit mission in Japan. She founded and led a society of Christian women cat echists\, whom people called the Miyaco no bicuni (nuns of Kyoto). Between 1600 and 1612\, Julia and her nuns preached\, engaged in religious disput ations\, catechized\, baptized hundreds of persons\, and provided pastoral care for the new converts. Standard Japanese historiography of the Edo pe riod also obliterated her memory because the anti-Christian government reg arded Julia and the Miyaco no bicuni as criminals. Arrested\, tortured and then deported to Manila in 1614\, the women maintained a contemplative co mmunity after Julia's death in 1627 until 1656 when the last two members p erished. Only the Jesuits remembered and recorded some details of their bi ographies and their society's history. Although none of the women's writin gs survive to tell us about their ideas and experiences\, we can see how t hey might have understood differences between Buddhism\, Shinto\, Confucia nism\, Taoism and Christianity in the text of Fucan Fabian's Myōtei mond ō (1607).\n\nBiography\nHaruko Nawata Ward is Associate Professor of Chur ch History at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur\, GA. She is the au thor of Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century\, 1549-1650 ( Ashgate\, 2009). Her recent articles include "Japan and Europe: The Christ ian Century\, 1549-1600\," in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Ref ormation\, ed. Margaret King (New York: Oxford University Press\, forthcom ing)\; "Women and Kirishitanban Literature: Translation\, Gender and Theol ogy in Early Modern Japan\," in Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary J ournal\, v.7 (2012)\; and "Jesuit Encounters with Confucianism in Early Mo dern Japan\," in The Sixteenth Century Journal 40\, no. 4 (winter 2009). S he has several chapter contributions such as "Women in the Eyes of a Jesui t between the East Indies\, New Spain and Early Modern Europe\," in Wester n Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age (1522-1671)\, ed. Christin a H. Lee (Ashgate\, 2012) and "Martyrdom and Religious Violence" in T and T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology\, ed. David M. Whitford (2012). She was William Scheide Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry\, Prin ceton\, in 2011-12. GEO:34.020197;-118.283725 LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, 110c SUMMARY:Naitō Julia and the Miyaco no Bicuni URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/naito_julia_and_the_miyaco_no_ bicuni_2519 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR