Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35768-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in June 2017.

In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit legacy: in South Asia, they benefited from pioneering Jesuit ethnographers while contesting their conversions; in Japan, all Christian missionaries who returned after 1853 faced the equation of Japanese nationalism with anti-Jesuit persecution; and in China, Protestants scrambled to catch up to the cultural legacy bequeathed by the earlier Jesuit mission.

In the Americas, Protestants presented Jesuits as enemies of liberal modernity, supporters of medieval absolutism yet master manipulators of modern self-fashioning and the printing press. The evidence suggests a far more complicated relationship of both Protestants and Jesuits as co-creators of the bright and dark sides of modernity, including the public sphere, public education, plantation slavery, and colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge

Maryks, Robert Aleksander

Hsia, Ronnie Po-Chia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Introduction: Protestantism and Early Jesuits

Robert Aleksander Maryks

Part 1: Asia

1 Introduction

Ronnie Po-chia Hsia

2 We are Not Jesuits: Reassessing Relations between Protestantism, French Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus in Late Tokugawa to Early Showa Japan

Makoto Harris Takao

3 Kirishitan Veneration of the Saints: Jesuit and Dutch Witnesses

Haruko Nawata Ward

4 Jesuit and Protestant Use of Vernacular Chinese in Accommodation Policy

Sophie Ling-chia Wei

5 Shaping the Anthropological Context of the “Salus populi Sinensis” Madonna Icon in Xian, China

Hui-Hung Chen

6 Jesuit and Protestant Encounters in Jiangnan: Contest and Cooperation in China’s Lower Yangzi Region

Steven Pieragastini

7 Protestant and Jesuit Encounters in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Délio Mendonça

8 Beyond Words: Missionary Grammars and the Construction of Language in Tamil Country

Michelle Zaleski

Part 2: The Americas

9 Introduction: Jesuit Liminal Space in Liberal Protestant Modernity

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

10 José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit–Protestant Author: Print Culture, Contingency, and Deliberate Silence in the Making of the Canon

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

11 Negotiating the Confessional Divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: The Case of Manoel de Morães

Anne B. McGinness

12 A French Jesuit Parish, without the Jesuits: Grand Bay’s Catholic Community and Institutional Durability in British Dominica

Steve Lenik

13 “Tis nothing but French Poison, all of it”: Jesuit and Calvinist Missions on the New World Frontier

Catherine Ballériaux

14 “Americans, you are marked for their prey!” Jesuits and the Nineteenth-century Nativist Impulse

Robert Emmett Curran

15 Wars of Words: Catholic and Protestant Jesuitism in Nineteenth-century America

Steven Mailloux

Über Autor(innen)

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His latest edited volume is Entangled Empires: Anglo-Iberian Atlantic Worlds 1500–1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Robert Maryks has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including, most recently, the edited volume Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa (Brill, 2018).

R.P. Hsia is Edwin Erle Sparks professor of history and Asian studies at Penn State University. Among his most recent edited books is A Companion to Early Modern Catholic Global Missions (Brill, 2018).