Salvation and globalization in the early Jesuit missions / Luke Clossey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clossey, Luke, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Missions--History.

Jesuits.

Salvation--Catholic Church.

Salvation.

Globalization--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Salvation & Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey shows how the vast distances separating missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of the Society as a tightly centralized military machine. In fact, connections unmediated by Rome sprung up between the missions throughout the seventeenth century. He follows trails of personnel, money, relics and information between missions in seventeenth-century China, Germany and Mexico, and explores how Jesuits understood space and time and visualized universal mission and salvation. This pioneering study demonstrates that a global perspective is essential to understanding the Jesuits and will be required reading for historians of Catholicism and the early-modern world.

Contents:

Introduction

Organizing the Society of Jesus

Decentralizing the Society of Jesus

Imagining global mission

Space, time, and truth in the Jesuit psychology

The missionary motivation

The Jesuit missionary network

The Jesuit financial network

The Jesuit information network

The Jesuit sacred economy

An edifying end : global salvific Catholicism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-309) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18708-7

1-281-71721-5

9786611717216

0-511-40950-8

0-511-49727-X

0-511-41004-2

0-511-40815-3

0-511-40740-8

0-511-40896-X

OCLC:

437213182