1st Edition
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610 Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism
By Ana Carolina Hosne
Copyright 2013
216 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the ‘New World’ which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about the way Christianity expanded in the early modern period, craving universalism.
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Introduction Part 1: The Men and the Missions 1. The Men 2. The Missions 3. The Tricky Concepts of Hispanicization in Peru and Accommodation in China Part 2: The Missions and their Texts Introduction 4. The Craftsmanship of Jesuit Catechisms in Peru and China 5. Christian Truths in the Andean and Chinese Settings Conclusion
Biography
Ana Carolina Hosne is a Marie Curie Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
