Translating catechisms, translating cultures : the expansion of Catholicism in the early modern world /

Translating catechisms, translating cultures : the expansion of Catholicism in the early modern world /

Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities; the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translation in the context of several Jesuit missionary strategies. The volume challenges...

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Corporate Author: Conference "Comparing Catechisms - Entangling Christian History"

Other Authors: Flüchter, Antje.

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 52.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004363939.

Subjects:

Catholic Church > History > Modern period, 1500- > Congresses.
Catholic Church > Missions > History > Congresses.
Catholic Church > Catechisms > History > Congresses.

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Call Number: BX1304

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures: An Introduction /
  • Antje Flüchter
  • Reflection on Language in Christian Mission: The Significance of Communication in the Linguistic Concepts of José de Acosta sj and Antonio Ruiz de Montoya sj /
  • Renate Dürr
  • Wholesome Milk and Strong Meat: Peter Canisius's Catechisms and the Conversion of Protestant Britain /
  • Alexandra Walsham
  • Inventing New Words: Father Jean de Brébeuf's Wendat Catechism of 1632 /
  • John Steckley
  • The Writing Catechism and Translation Strategies of Three Jesuits in South India: Henrique Henriques, Roberto de Nobili and Joseph Beschi /
  • Anand Amaladass
  • António Fernandes and His Book on the Virgin Mary: A Contribution to the Jesuit-Ethiopian Debate over Asceticism and Matrimony /
  • Leonardo Cohen
  • Roberto Nobili's Vivāha dharma: A Case of Cultural Translation /
  • Giulia Nardini
  • A Law Too Strict? The Cultural Translation of Catholic Marriage in the Jesuit Mission to Japan /
  • Rouven Wirbser
  • Christian Catechisms and Practice in Japan in the Era of the Jesuit Mission: An Intercultural Approach /
  • Takao Abé
  • From Catechisms to Prayer Books in the Early Jesuit China Mission: Tracing the Images the Chinese "should and should not venerate" (16th-17th Centuries) /
  • Ana Carolina Hosne
  • Preaching with Pictures, Transforming Memories: Catechisms and Images as Contact Zones in Sixteenth Century New Spain /
  • John Ødemark
  • Index.