Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions
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- Author: Luke Clossey, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
- Date Published: April 2011
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- isbn: 9780521173261
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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.
Read more- Was the first global, comparative study of Jesuit missions in early modern Germany, Mexico and China
- Based on extensive archival research in Europe, Latin America and Asia
- Will appeal to scholars of early modern world history, religious history, the history of Christianity and colonial history
Reviews & endorsements
“full of wonderfully unexpected connections, and overflowing with ideas and proposals for a new global history of the early modern period” Journal of Global History 4.2 (2009): 342-44
See more reviews“extremely learned, poised, and ambitious” American Historical Review 114.5 (2009): 1418-9
“brilliantly argued book, rich in source materials as well as in analysis, highly readable and at times outright witty” Social History 34.3 (2009): 350-52
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521173261
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Organizing the Society of Jesus
3. Decentralizing the Society of Jesus
4. Imagining global mission
5. Space, time, and truth in the Jesuit psychology
6. The missionary motivation
7. The Jesuit missionary network
8. The Jesuit financial network
9. The Jesuit information network
10. The Jesuit sacred economy
11. An edifying end: Global salvific catholicism
Appendix A. Abbreviations for document sources
Appendix B. Chronological tables (1540–1722)
Appendix C. Principal prosographical information
Appendix D. Monetary systems.`
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