Research Catalog

Title

Catholic missionaries in early modern Asia : patterns of localization / edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Amsler, Nadine
• Badea, Andreea
• Heyberger, Bernard
• Windler, Christian
• Standaert, N.
• Emich, Birgit

Description

vii, 272 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated to the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion. Bringing together some of the most renowned and innovative researchers from Anglophone countries and continental Europe, this volume investigates how missionaries' entanglements with local societies across Asia contributed to processes of localization within the early modern Catholic church. The focus of the volume is on missionaries' adaptation to four ideal-typical social settings that played an eminent role in early modern Asian missions: 1) the symbolically loaded princely court; 2) the city as a space of especially dense communication; 3) the countryside, where missionary presence was only rarely permanent; 4) and the household - a central arena of conversion in early modern Asian societies. Shining a fresh light onto the history of early modern Catholic missions and the early modern Eurasian cultural exchange, this will be an important book for any scholar of Religious History, History of Cultural Contact/Global History and Early Modern History in Asia. --

Series Statement

Religious cultures in the early modern world

Uniform Title

Religious cultures in the early modern world.

Subject

• Catholic Church > Asia > History
• Catholic Church
• 1900-1999
• Missions > Asia > History
• Acculturation > Asia > History
• Church and state > Asia > History > 20th century
• Acculturation
• Church and state
• Missions
• Asia > Church history
• Asia

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-262) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Localizing Catholic missions in Asia / Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, Christian Windler -- Between convent and court life : missionaries in Isfahan and New Julfa / Christian Windler -- The habit that hides the monk : missionary fashion strategies in late imperial Chinese society and court culture / Eugenio Menegon -- Between Mogor and Salsete : Rodolfo Acquaviva's error / Ines G. Županov -- Urban residences and rural missions : patronage and Catholic evangelization in late imperial China / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia -- The post-Tridentine parish system in the port city of Nagasaki / Carla Tronu -- Conflicting views : Catholic missionaries in Ottoman cities between accommodation and Latinization / Cesare Santus -- Funding the mission : the Jesuits' economic integration in the Japanese countryside / Hélène Vu Thanh -- Trading in spiritual and earthly goods : Franciscans in semi-rural Palestine / Felicita Tramontana -- Rural Tibet in the early modern missions / Trent Pomplun -- Holy households : Jesuits, women, and domestic Catholicism in China / Nadine Amsler -- Women, households, and the transformation of Christianity into the Kirishitan religion / Haruko Nawata Ward -- Missionaries and women : domestic Catholicism in the Middle East / Bernard Heyberger -- History as the art of the "other" and the art of "in-betweenness" / Nicolas Standaert -- Localizing Catholic missions in Asia : framework conditions, scope for action, and social spaces / Birgit Emich.

Call Number

JFE 21-503

ISBN

• 0367028816
• 9780367028817
• 9780429671500 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429672996 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429670015 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429001246 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1101792836

Title

Catholic missionaries in early modern Asia : patterns of localization / edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Religious cultures in the early modern world

Religious cultures in the early modern world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-262) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Amsler, Nadine, editor, writer of introduction.

Badea, Andreea, editor, writer of introduction.

Heyberger, Bernard, editor, writer of introduction.

Windler, Christian, editor, writer of introduction.

Standaert, N., writer of afterword.

Emich, Birgit, writer of afterword.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780429671500

Research Call Number

JFE 21-503