A companion to early modern Catholic global missions /
A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays by historians from eight countries offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa and Asia,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ;
v. 80. |
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| Summary: | A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays by historians from eight countries offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa and Asia, but also the complex political, cultural and religious contexts of the missionary fields. The conquests and colonization of the Americas presented a different stage for the drama of evangelization in contrast to that of Africa and Asia, in the inhospitable landscape of Africa, the implacable Islamic societies of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, and the self-assured regimes of Ming-Qing China, Nguyen dynasty Vietnam and Tokugawa Japan. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 488 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-476) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004349940 9004349944 |