To Overcome Oneself : The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520-1767 /
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s thro...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "To Overcome Oneself"
- 1. The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises: Conquest of the Self, Conquest of the World
- 2. Women's Devotional Labor
- 3. Consolation Philosophy
- 4. Evangelization and Consolation: Or, Philosophy in the Mission Field
- 5. Facts: Houses, Books, and Other Remains
- 6. Colonial Indifference? Another Approach to the Colonial Other
- 7. A Heart-Shaped World
- Conclusion: Re-membering the Past
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index