10.5281/zenodo.322706
https://zenodo.org/records/322706
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Bayer, Achim
Achim
Bayer
Kanazawa Seiryo University
Necessary Reflections on Martin Scorsese's "Silence": Religious Violence in the Seventeenth Century, as Seen from Japan
Zenodo
2017
Japan, mission, religious violence
2017-02-27
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Martin Scorsese's movie "Silence" shows the arrival of two Jesuit priests in Japan (1639) and the ensuing struggles of Japanese Christian converts who defied the order to the ruling Shogun. Although the imagery of Scorsese's movie is captivating, the story itself is surprisingly naive in neglecting the role of Jesuit mission in the Spanish colonization of the Pacific realm. This colonization brought with it forced conversions and executions of non-Christians, both forms of religious violence that had their roots in the recent history of Europe.