A companion to early modern Catholic global missions / / edited by Ronnie Po-chia Hsia.

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 Asi...

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Superior document:Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume 80
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2018.
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 80.
Physical Description:1 online resource (498 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Americas
  • Missionizing Mexico: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and the Spread of Christianity / Mark Christensen
  • The Andes / Aliocha Maldavsky
  • The Missions of Paraguay: Rise, Expansion and Fall / Guillermo Wilde
  • Early Modern Catholic Missions in Brazil: The Challenge of the Outsiders / Anne McGinness
  • New France1 / Dominique Deslandres
  • Africa
  • Catholic Missions and Local Rulers in Sub-Saharan Africa / Alan Strathern
  • Islamic World
  • Missionaries and French Subjects: The Jesuits in the Ottoman Empire / Adina Ruiu
  • Ambiguous Belongings: How Catholic Missionaries in Persia and the Roman Curia Dealt with Communicatio in Sacris1 / Christian Windler
  • Asia
  • South Asia / Ines G. Županov
  • Missions in Vietnam / Tara Alberts
  • The Christian Missions in Japan in the Early Modern Period / M. Antoni and S.J. J. Ucerler
  • Imperial China and the Christian Mission / R. Po-chia Hsia
  • The Structures
  • Finances of the Missions / Fred Vermote
  • Missionaries: Who were They1 / Christoph Nebgen.