The rites controversies in the early modern world
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The rites controversies in the early modern world
(Studies in Christian mission, v. 53)
Brill, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of fourteen articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of "rites" raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The controversy started in Jesuit Asian missions where the method of accommodation, based on translation of Christianity into Asian cultural idioms, created a distinction between civic and religious customs. Civic customs were defined as those that could be included into Christianity and permitted to the new converts. However, there was no universal consensus among the various actors in these controversies as to how to establish criteria for distinguishing civility from religion. The controversy had not been resolved, but opened the way to radical religious scepticism.
Contributors are: Claudia Brosseder, Michela Catto, Gita Dharampal-Frick, Pierre Antoine Fabre, Ana Carolina Hosne, Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Giuseppe Marcocci, Ovidiu Olar, Sabina Pavone, Istvan Perczel, Nicholas Standaert, Margherita Trento, Guillermo Wilde and Ines G. Zupanov.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Maps and Illustrations
List of Frequently Used Abbreviations
List of Contributors
The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World: An Introduction
Ines G. Zupanov and Pierre Antoine Fabre
Part 1: Chinese Rites and Jesuit Missions
1 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: From China to Rome
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
2 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Role of Christian Communities
Nicolas Standaert
3 Atheism: A Word Travelling To and Fro Between Europe and China
Michela Catto
Part 2: Malabar Rites between Mission and History
4 Sivadharma or Bonifacio? Behind the Scenes of the Madurai Mission Controversy (1608-1619)
Margherita Trento
5 Revisiting the Malabar Rites Controversy: A Paradigm of Ritual Dynamics in the Early Modern Catholic Missions of South India
Gita Dharampal-Frick
Part 3: Mission and Inquisition
6 Rites and Inquisition: Ethnographies of Error in Portuguese India (1560-1625)
Giuseppe Marcocci
7 Jesuits and Oriental Rites in the Documents of the Roman Inquisition
Sabina Pavone
Part 4: Rites Controversies: Far and Near
8 Accommodationist Strategies on the Malabar Coast: Competition or Complementarity?
Istvan Perczel
9 Orthodoxy and Politics: The Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the Prince Mihnea III Radu of Walachia and the Great Church of Constantinople
Ovidiu Olar
Part 5: Idols, Idolatry and Catholic Mission
10 Writing Rites in the Borderlands: Appropriation, Mimesis and Interaction between Jesuits and Indians in Colonial South America
Guillermo Wilde
11 "Secularizing" the Andes: The Effects of Transcultural Processes on Colonial Andean Rituals
Claudia Brosseder
12 Dios, Dio, Viracocha, Tianzhu: "Finding" and "Translating" the Christian God in the Overseas Jesuit Missions (16th-18th Centuries)
Ana Carolina Hosne
Epilogues: Rites Controversies as Cultural Resources
13 A Cross Concealed Among Flowers: Interpreting a Secret Ritual in Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Communities
Pierre Antoine Fabre
14 Against Rites: Jesuit Accommodatio as Pietist Preparatio Evangelica in Eighteenth Century South India
Ines G. Zupanov
Index
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