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Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions

By Luke Clossey

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521887445, 9780521887441
LCC
BV2290 .C56 2008
Open Library ID
OL16717435M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3277734 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
342\342
Topic
History
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey shows how the vast distances separating missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of the Society as a tightly centralized military machine. In fact, connections unmediated by Rome sprung up between the missions throughout the seventeenth century. He follows trails of personnel, money, relics and information between missions in seventeenth-century China, Germany and Mexico, and explores how Jesuits understood space and time and visualized universal mission and salvation. This pioneering study demonstrates that a global perspective is essential to understanding the Jesuits and will be required reading for historians of Catholicism and the early-modern world.

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