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Salvation and globalization in the early Jesuit missions /
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 Closs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511410048 0511410042 9780511408151 0511408153 0511409508 9780511409509 9780511408960 051140896X 9780511497278 051149727X 9786611717216 6611717218 9780521173261 0521173264 |