A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions

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A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays offers a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. A Companion to Early ModernCatholic Global Missions Contents Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Introduction The Americas Missionizing Mexico: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and the Spread of Christianity Conquering the Conquest Europeans in Evangelization Natives in Evangelization An Evolving Evangelization The Andes Introduction 1. First Evangelization in the Central Andes (1532–1583) 2. Trent in the Andes 3. Missions in the Margins 4. Evangelizing Indigenous Languages 5. Andean Catholicism Conclusion Bibliography The Missions of Paraguay: Rise, Expansion and Fall Mission Ethnogenesis The Missioned Societies Shamans’ Power Indios Letrados Urban Structure and Daily Routine Ruling Through Letters The Final Phase Conclusion Early Modern Catholic Missions in Brazil: The Challenge of the Outsiders 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Background 4.3 Jesuit Missions 4.4 Historiography 4.5 Jesuit Support of Slavery and Violence Versus Jesuit Accommodation 4.6 Four European Powers and Their Challenge to Catholicism in Brazil 4.7 Atlantic and Global History and the Missions 4.8 Future Research 4.9 Conclusion New France 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The State of Current Research and Desiderata for Future Directions of Research 5.3 History of the Missions in New France 5.4 The Missions, the Fusion of the People, and the Expansion of French Sovereignty 5.5 Women Missionaries and Missionized Women 5.6 Conclusion Africa Catholic Missions and Local Rulers in Sub-Saharan Africa 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Catholic Kings of Kongo and its Surrounds 6.3 Angola: From Diplomacy to Force 6.4 Mutapa 6.5 The Bight of Benin 6.6 Sierra Leone to Senegal 6.7 Conclusion Islamic World Missionaries and French Subjects: The Jesuits in the Ottoman Empire 7.1 Introduction: From Crusade to Mission 7.2 Missionary Vocation 7.3 From Giulio Mancinelli to François De Canillac 7.4 France, Rome, and the Jesuits 7.5 The Conflict between Religious Orders 7.6 Conclusion Ambiguous Belongings: How Catholic Missionaries in Persia and the Roman Curia Dealt with Communicatio in Sacris 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Persia Mission in the Context of the Post-Tridentine Missions 8.3 The Local Practices of Piety 8.4 “Nihil Esse Respondendum:” Decision-Making Processes in the Roman Curia 8.5 The Truth Claim of the Roman Catholic Church and the Limits of Enforceability Asia South Asia 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Missionary Landscapes 9.3 Accommodation and Violence 9.4 Language and Translation Zones 9.5 A Quest for Missionary Method 9.6 The Apogee and End of Catholic Missionary Knowledge 9.7 Historiographical Renewal Missions in Vietnam 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Forgotten Histories and Fantasies 10.2.1 The ‘Clérigo Agradecido’ 10.3 Practicalities: Missionaries as Commercial and Military Agents 10.4 Creating a “Vietnamese” Catholicism 10.5 Conclusion The Christian Missions in Japan in the Early Modern Period 11.1 Introduction: Portugal’s Encounter with Japan 11.2 Francis Xavier and Foundations 11.3 Jesuits in the Capital & “Home Provinces” 11.4 The Mission in Kyushu 11.5 Alessandro Valignano and the Renewal of the Enterprise 11.6 The Establishment of Schools 11.7 The Tenshō Embassy to Europe 11.8 Printing & Painting 11.9 Changing Tides under Toyotomi Hideyoshi 11.10 The Arrival of the Mendicants & the Jesuit Monopoly 11.11 The Mission & Tokugawa Ieyasu 11.12 The Expulsion of the Missionaries 11.13 Life and Death under the Edo Shogunate 11.14 The End of the Mission 11.15 The “Underground Christians” 11.16 Conclusion 11.17 Postscript on Primary and Secondary Sources Imperial China and the Christian Mission 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Sources 12.3 Historiography 12.4 Laying the Foundations 12.5 Science and Conversion in China 12.6 Converts 12.7 The Jesuit Mission: A Cross-Sectional View 12.8 Jesuit Writings in China 12.9 The Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuits 12.10 From Toleration to Prohibition 12.11 Christianity and Chinese Society The Structures Finances of the Missions 13.1 Introduction 13.2 State of the Field and Nature of the Sources 13.3 Jesuit Financial Administration 13.4 Sources of Income 13.5 Conclusion Missionaries: Who were They 14.1 Introduction 14.2 The Model: Francis Xavier 14.3 The Political Conditions for the Central European Indipeta 14.4 Qualifications for the Missionary Candidate 14.5 Other Media for the Propagation of the Call 14.6 Theater 14.7 Songs about Missions 14.8 The Martyrology of Matthias Tanner 14.9 The Use of Matryrdom for Recruitment 14.10 Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index