L’autre Siècle chrétien : stratégies de différenciation et auto-perception religieuse des protestants dans le Japon de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle

This paper highlights the role of Protestantism in seventeenth-century Japan, from 1600 to 1660. Far from being sidelined, it actually shaped the structure of conflicts between Reformed merchants (Dutch/English) and Catholic missionary merchants (mainly Spanish and Portuguese), as well as…