A companion to early modern Catholic global missions / edited by Ronnie Po-chia Hsia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hsia, R. Po-chia, 1955- editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 80.

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; volume 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Missions--History.

Catholic Church.

Missions.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 488 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Catholic global missions and the expansion of Europe

Part 1. 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 oudsiders / Anne McGinness

5. New France / Dominique Deslandres

Part 2. Africa. 6. Catholic missions and local rulers in Sub-Saharan Africa / Alan Strathern

Part 3. 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 4. Asia. 9. South Asia / Ines G. Županov

10. Missions in Vietnam / Tara Alberts

11. The Christian missions in Japan in the early modern period / M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.

12. Imperial China and the Christian mission / R. Po-chia Hsia

Part 5. The structures. 13. Finances of the missions / Fred Vermote

14. Missionaries: who were they / Christoph Nebgen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-476) and index.

ISBN:

9789004349940

9004349944

OCLC:

1001884871

Publisher Number:

99975605506