Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia : Patterns of Localization

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765849803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2019
• ISBN: 0-429-67150-4; 0-429-00124-X; 0-429-67299-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Collana: Religious cultures in the early modern world
• Altri autori (Persone): AmslerNadine; BadeaAndreea; HeybergerBernard; WindlerChristian
• Disciplina: 266.209
• Soggetti: RELIGION / Missions & Missionary Work; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholicism; Asia History 17th century; Asia Foreign relations 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Localizing Catholic missions in Asia -- PART I Missionaries at princely courts -- 1 Between convent and court life: Missionaries in Isfahan and New Julfa -- 2 "The habit that hides the monk": Missionary fashion strategies in late imperial Chinese society and court culture -- 3 Between Mogor and Salsete: Rodolfo Acquaviva's error -- PART II Missionaries in cities -- 4 Urban residences and rural missions: Patronage and Catholic evangelization in late imperial China -- 5 The post-Tridentine parish system in the port city of Nagasaki -- 6 Conflicting views: Catholic missionaries in Ottoman cities between accommodation and Latinization -- PART III Missionaries in the countryside -- 7 Funding the mission: The Jesuits' economic integration in the Japanese countryside -- 8 Trading in spiritual and earthly goods: Franciscans in semi-rural Palestine -- 9 Rural Tibet in the early modern missions -- PART IV Missionaries and ; households -- 10 Holy households: Jesuits, women, and domestic Catholicism in China -- 11 Women, households, and the transformation of Christianity into the Kirishitan religion -- 12 Missionaries and women: Domestic Catholicism in the Middle East -- Afterwords -- History as the art of the "other" and the art of "in-betweenness" -- Localizing Catholic missions in Asia: Framework conditions, scope for action, and social spaces -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.