Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668-1945)

Brill's Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39485-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 187 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies

This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coello De La Rosa, Alexandre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

The Arrival of the Jesuits in the Philippines

The Marianas as Part of the Universal Christian Project

Gathering Souls at the Margins of the Spanish Empire

To Retain or Abandon the Marianas?

Corruption, Greed, and Misgovernment

New Spiritual and Geopolitical Configurations

The Baroque Theater of Power

Lights and Shadows: The Virgin of Our Lady of Light

A New Foothold in the Nineteenth-Century Carolines

Twentieth-Century Jesuits at the Crossroads of the New Pacific World Empires

Chuuk

Yap

Palau and Pohnpei

The Marshall Islands

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, PhD (2001), SUNY at Stony Brook, is professor of Asian and Latin American Studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). He has published a great deal of monographs, articles, and edited books on ecclesiastical history of the Marianas and the Philippines, including (with David Atienza) Scars of Faith: Letters and Documents of the Mariana Islands’ Jesuit Missionaries and Martyrs (Chestnut Hill, MA: Institute of Jesuit Sources, forthcoming, 2019).