The Jesuit missions of Paraguay and a cultural history of Utopia (1568-1789) /

The Jesuit missions of Paraguay and a cultural history of Utopia (1568-1789) /

The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568-1789) explores the religious foundations of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, and the discussion of the missionary experience in the public opinion of early modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot. This book presents a wealth of...

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Main Author: Imbruglia, Girolamo.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 51.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004363939.

Subjects:

Jesuits > Missions > History. > Paraguay
Missions > Public opinion.
Europeans > Attitudes.
Utopias > History.
Paraguay > Church history.

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Call Number: BV2853.P2

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Introduction
  • Europeans and Religious Orders in America
  • The Society of Jesus: Missionaries and Missions
  • The Missions and Public Opinion in the Crisis of European Conscience: Utopias and Republicanism
  • Montesquieu, Republican Utopia and Civilisation
  • The Age of the Encyclopédie and Rousseau: New Paths and New Needs to Rethink Utopianism
  • 1750s-1770s: Political and Social Conflicts
  • Utopias and Human Sciences: Diderot's Analysis of Society
  • Beyond the Lumières
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.