Interreligious and Global Perspectives of Christian Art in China and Taiwan, 1552-1650.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patrick, Susangeline Y.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

This book considers how European and Asian Christian missionaries communicated religious doctrine through the visual arts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Greater China.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Art, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern China and Taiwan

Reimagining Christian Art and Visual Culture

Research Questions

Interpreting Christian Art in History

Art as a Didactic Tool

Art as Power

Method of Study

Overview of the Book

Chapter 1: Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: The Jesuits and Chinese Catholic Art

Historical and Cultural Background

Jesuit Art, Accommodation, and Counterculturality

Chinese-Styled Christian Art

Jesuit Art and Countercultural Efforts

Art, Doctrine, and Spiritual Power

Jesuit Architecture and Intercultural Fusion

Jesuit Architecture Types

The Patronage of Jesuit Churches

Chapter 2: Poverty and Suffering: Franciscans and Art

Historical and Religious Context

Franciscan Visual Culture and Local Reception

Franciscan and Chinese Catholic Adaptation in Architecture

Art, Salvation, and Marian Devotion

The Terrifying Hell, Salvation, and Art

Marian Devotion

Saints, Martyrs, and the Passion of Christ

Relics and Miracles of the Martyrs

Christus Patiens

Chapter 3: Simplicity and Piety: Augustinians and Art

Augustinian Visual Culture

Art as Diplomatic Gifts

Augustinian Habit and Rudimentary Buildings

Augustinian Marian Devotion and Architecture

First Typology: Our Lady of Graces

Second Typology: Our Lady of Remedies

Third Typology: Our Lady of Penha

Augustinian Veneration of Saints and Martyrs

Bom Jesus and Miracles

Chapter 4: Our Lady of the Rosary: Dominicans and Art

An Overview of Dominicans and Their Global Network

Dominican Visual Culture in China and Taiwan

Dominican Rejection of Culture and Chinese Actions

Dominican Adaptation to Cultures

Dominican Images and Art in China.

Dominican Liturgical Art

Dominican-Commissioned Porcelain

Dominican Architecture in China and Taiwan

Our Lady of the Rosary

Chapter 5: Harmonizing the World: The Poor Clares and Art

A Brief History of the Poor Clares in Macau

Poverty and Visual Culture

Religious Habit and Identity

Women of Books

Architecture and Marian Devotion

Frescoes in the Guia Chapel

Mazu, Guanyin, and Our Lady of Guia

Chapter 6: Asian Catholics, Their Art, and Visual Culture

Catholic Artists and Piety

Anonymous Women Artists

Japanese Christian Artists in Macau

The Enslaved and Church Buildings in Macau

Chinese Catholic Women, Singleness, and Visual Culture

Chinese Christian Women as Pious Patrons

Confucian Ideals of Womanhood

Unmarried Women in Buddhism

Unmarried Women in Daoism

Chinese Catholic Virgins and Catholic Virgins in Europe

Fujianese Christian Artists in Manila

Chapter 7: Catholic Visual Culture, Art, and Public Piety

Multicultural Catholics and Visuality in Macau

Jesuit Art Center and Their Art

Charity and Visual Piety

Saints, Relics, and Exorcism

Saints as Icons in China

The Veneration of Relics

Images and Exorcism

Localizing Mystery Plays and Christianizing Chinese Festivals

Localizing Mystery Plays

Christianizing Chinese Festivals

Absent Iconographies in Ming Catholic Art

Non-Christian Chinese Printed Christian Art

Chinese Christian Porcelains in Europe

Chapter 8: Protestant Visual Culture in Early Modern Taiwan

Historical Background

Dutch Style and Indigenous Tongues

"Adopt Our Manners and Customs"

Learning Indigenous Tongues

Forbidden Affgoderie

Visual Imagery in Christian Texts

Indigenous Protestant Response and Visual Culture

Conclusion: Art, Power, and Religion

Appendix A: Names, Places, Institutions, and Events.

Appendix B: List of Selected Catholic Churches and Convents

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Patrick, Susangeline Y. Interreligious and Global Perspectives of Christian Art in China and Taiwan, 1552-1650

ISBN:

9798216251309

9781978767393

OCLC:

1597384518