This workshop presents the first results of the research developed in the framework of the project “Interactions between Rivals,” a three-year international project funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation. The project aims at a comprehensive analysis of the way Southern European (nanbanjin) and Japanese confronted each other, interacted and mutually experienced religious “otherness,” through the study of the composite cultural heritage created (mostly) in Japan by both European and Japanese. Members of the research team will discuss material related to four main lines of enquiry: 1) References to Buddhist sects, system of beliefs, and religious practices in missionary writings; 2) Buddhist influences in Christian literature published in Japan; 3) Interactions between Buddhist and missionary visual culture and ceremonial practices; 4) Interactions between Buddhist and Jesuit scientific cultures.
Research Team: Alexandra Curvelo (principal investigator), Angelo Cattaneo, Silvio Vita (coordinator), Rie Arimura, Lucia Dora Dolce, Nicolas Fiévè, Daniele Frison, Fredéric Girard, Makoto Hayashi, Martin Nogueira Ramos, Ana Fernandes Pinto e José Miguel Pinto dos Santos.
Consultants: João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, François Lachaud, Jean Noel Robert.
Organised by
CHAM / NOVA FCSH | UAc
