A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34994-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays by historians from eight countries offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia, but also the complex political, cultural, and religious contexts of the missionary fields.
The conquests and colonization of the Americas presented a different stage for the drama of evangelization in contrast to that of Africa and Asia: the inhospitable landscape of Africa, the implacable Islamic societies of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, and the self-assured regimes of Ming-Qing China, Nguyen dynasty Vietnam, and Tokugawa Japan.

Contributors are Tara Alberts, Mark Z. Christensen, Dominique Deslandres, R. Po-chia Hsia, Aliocha Maldavsky, Anne McGinness, Christoph Nebgen, Adina Ruiu, Alan Strathern, M. Antoni J. Üçerler, Fred Vermote, Guillermo Wilde, Christian Windler, and Ines Zupanov.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hsia, Ronnie Po-Chia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Catholic Global Missions and the Expansion of Europe

Part I. The Americas
1 Missionizing Mexico: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and the Spread of Christianity
Mark Christensen
2 The Andes
Aliocha Maldavsky
3 The Missions of Paraguay: Rise, Expansion and Fall
Guillermo Wilde
4 Early Modern Catholic Missions in Brazil: The Challenge of the Outsiders
Anne McGuiness
5 New France
Dominique Deslandres

Part II. Africa
6 Catholic Missions and Local Rulers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Alan Strathern

Part III. Islamic World
7 Missionaries and French Subjects: The Jesuits in the Ottoman Empire
Adina Ruiu
8 Ambiguous Belongings: How Catholic Missionaries in Persia and the Roman Curia Dealt with Communicatio in Sacris
Christian Windler

Part IV. Asia
9 India
Ines Zupanov
10 Missions in Vietnam
Tara Alberts
11 The Christian Missions in Japan in the Early Modern Period
M. Antoni and J. Ucerler
12 Imperial China and the Christian Mission
R. Po-chia Hsia

Part V. The Structures
13 Finances of the Missions
Fred Vermote
14 Missionaries: Who were They
Christoph Nebgen

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

R. Po-chia Hsia, Ph.D (Yale, 1982) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Asian Studies at Penn State University and Academician at the Academia Sinica, Taipei. Among his numerous publications is A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610 (Oxford, 2010), which has been translated into Italian and Chinese.