01 December 2020

BOOK: Ronnie PO-CHIA HSIA (Ed.), A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions (Leiden: Brill, 2020). ISBN: 9789004349940, pp. 488, € 190.00

 Cover A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions

(Source: Brill)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 80

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.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Ronnie 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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


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