Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia [[electronic resource] ] : Patterns of Localization

• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 266.209
• Soggetto topico: RELIGION / Missions & Missionary Work; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholicism
• Soggetto geografico: Asia History 17th century; Asia Foreign relations 17th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Christianity; catholicism; Palestine
• Altri autori: AmslerNadine BadeaAndreea HeybergerBernard WindlerChristian
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia
• Titolo autorizzato: Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia
• ISBN: 0-429-67150-4; 0-429-00124-X; 0-429-67299-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765849803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religious cultures in the early modern world.