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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions & Allegiance traces how the largest religion in the world continues to be expressed in energetic global dynamic forms. In contemporary times Christianity is increasingly exposed to divisions, not only through its traditional channels – Roman Catholic, Protestant and the Orthodoxy – nor conservative and liberal streams, but numerous nuanced articulations. This is reflected in the roles of clergy and lay people, in organisational dynamics, sources of allegiance and articulations of the faith, movements of renewal and revivalism, syncretic modes, and broader relationships with wider cultural trajectories and changing social circumstances. Collectively the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive exploration of these themes. The volume is a companion to the Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity.Trade Review'This text will be of great interest to postgraduate and undergraduate students, religious leaders, and others seeking detailed information on the cross-sections of Christianity. Researchers in the fields of theology, sociology, and history will discover how Christianity influences the modern world and will find valuable contributions in this book. The companion volume, Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Trends and Developments in Culture, Politics and Society expands on topics of contemporary Christianity and will be another useful text for research. Highly recommended. - Janis Minshull, American Reference Books Annual (2016) 'The Handbook demonstrates the significance of appreciating the fluidity of Christianity as it translates in ever-changing socio-political landscapes. (...) I do recommend this volume to scholars and students in humanities and social sciences and anyone who wants to understand historical and contemporary trajectories in GCC.' Chammah J. Kaunda, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mission Studies 35 (2018)

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion, the articles gathered in this volume offer historical, literary critical and anthropological perspectives on Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum (thirteenth century), the context of its production and other texts directly or indirectly inspired by it. The exempla inserted by Caesarius into a didactic dialogue between a monk and a novice survived for many centuries and travelled across the seas thanks to rewritings and translations into vernacular languages. An accomplished example of the art of persuasion —medieval and early modern— the Dialogus Miraculorum establishes a link not only between the monasteries, the mendicant circles and other religious congregations but also between the Middle Ages and Modernity, the Old and the New World. Contributors are: Jacques Berlioz, Elisa Brilli, Danièle Dehouve, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Marie Formarier, Jasmin Margarete Hlatky, Elena Koroleva, Nathalie Luca, Brian Patrick McGuire, Stefano Mula, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova, and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Manuscripts Cited Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova and Jacques Berlioz PART 1 The Cistercian Art of ‘Making Believe’ (Faire Croire) 1 The Monk Who Loved to Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius Brian Patrick McGuire PART 2 In Search of a Cistercian Rhetoric 2 To What Extent Were the Twelfth-Century Cistercians Interested in Rhetorical Treatises? Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk 3 Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?) Victoria Smirnova 4 Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus miraculorum (VIII, 31) Marie Formarier PART 3 Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology 5 Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus miraculorum Victoria Smirnova 6 Exempla and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines’s Reading of Caesarius’s Dialogus miraculorum Stefano Mula PART 4 The Use of the Cistercian Heritage in Dominican Preaching 7 The Making of a New Auctoritas: The Dialogus miraculorum Read and Rewritten by the Dominican Arnold of Liège Elisa Brili 8 Dialogus miraculorum: The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Younger’s Scala coeli? Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu PART 5 The Dialogus miraculorum in Translation 9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotiomoderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum Jasmin Margarete Hlatky 10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb Elena Koroleva 11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570–1770) Danièle Dehouve PART 6 Roundtable: “Making Believe. Stories and Persuasion:Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, Thirteenth–Twenty-first Centuries” 12 From Caesarius to Jông Myông-Sôk: A South Korean Exemplum of a Messiah Nathalie Luca 13 Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum Pierre-Antoine Fabre General Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries offers an introduction to the rules and customaries of the main religious orders in medieval Europe: Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian, Augustinian, Premonstratensian, Templar, Hospitaller, Teutonic, Dominican, Franciscan, and Carmelite. As well as introducing the early history and spirituality of the orders, scholars survey the central topics – organization, doctrine, morality, liturgy, and culture, as documented by these primary sources. Contributors are: James Clark, Tom Gaens, Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, Holly Grieco, Emilia Jamroziak, Gert Melville, Stephen Molvarec, Carol Neel, Krijn Pansters, Matthew Ponesse, Bert Roest, Kristjan Toomaspoeg, Paul van Geest, Ursula Vones-Liebenstein, and Coralie Zermatten.Trade Review"Pansters' profound and content-rich introduction to the subject, the structure and aim of the volume, and the largely uniform organization of the individual contributions, which are very convincing throughout, will make the work essential reading for the future study of medieval normative texts." Robert Harlaß, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, on H-Soz-Kult "Pansters designates three broad categories of religious: monks [...], canons [...], and mendicants.[...] To facilitate comparison across the articles, authors were invited to address a shared set of conceptual and methodological issues (including questions of group origins, characteristic spiritual practices, the survival and authenticity of textual sources, and contributions in the areas of education, theology, the arts, craftwork, and architecture). This shared framework productively links the various articles and lends admirable coherence to the volume." "A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries provides a useful starting point for scholars interested in extending their understanding of the ideals and realities of formal religious orders and for advanced students in search of steady guidance through the sometimes-bewildering world of monastic rules and customaries." Alison I. Beach, University of St Andrews, in Church History, 2021, pp 938-939 (doi:10.1017/S0009640722000269) The implementation of the idea to collect normative texts in a handbook is very successful. Current editions, historical as well as research-historical contexts as well as central regulations with regard to the organization, the communal life, and the spirituality and culture of the orders are presented. This handbook now invites complementary comparative studies and at the same time lays a valuable foundation for them. Julia Bruch, Universität zu Köln, in Historische Zeitschrift, 2022, 748-749 "Undoubtedly, the individual contributions will enrich the study of the respective communities as well as spiritual life in the Middle Ages as a whole. The book can thus be consulted with great profit by both religious and wider medieval studies. As a "handbook" on medieval rules, consuetudines, and statutes, the volume thus promises to be of valuable service to future research." Stephan Flemmig, Jena in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 (2022) 105-106 Die Umsetzung der Idee, normative Texte in einem Handbuch zu sammeln, ist sehr gut gelungen. Präsentiert werden aktuelle Editionen, historische sowie for forschungsgeschichtliche Kontexte und darüber hinaus zentrale Regelungen zur Organisation,dem Zusammenleben, zur Spiritualität und Kultur der Orden. Dieses Handbuch fordert nun ergänzende vergleichende Studien heraus und legt zugleich einen wertvollen Grundstein dafür. Julia Bruch, Universität zu Köln, in Historische Zeitschrift, 2022, 748-749 "Durch die profunde und inhaltsreiche Einführung Pansters´ in das Thema, die Struktur und das Ziel des Bandes sowie die weitgehend einheitliche Gliederung der durchweg sehr überzeugenden Einzelbeiträge wird das Werk für die künftige Beschäftigung mit mittelalterlichen normativen Texten eine zentrale Lektüre darstellen." Robert Harlaß, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, on H-Soz-Kult "Zweifellos werden die einzelnen Beiträge die Beschäftigung mit den jeweiligen Gemeinschaften sowie mit demgeistlichen Leben im Mittelalter insgesamt bereichern. Das Buch kann damit sowohl von der Ordens- als auch von der weiteren mediävistischenforschung mit großem Gewinn konsultiert werden. Als „Handbuch“ zu den mittelalterlichen Regeln, consuetudines und Statuten verspricht der Band der zukünftigen Forschung somit wertvolle Dienste zu leisten." Stephan Flemmig, Jena in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 (2022) 105-106Table of Contents List of Contributors 1 Medieval Rules and Customaries Reconsidered   Krijn Pansters 2 The Rule of Saint Benedict   James G.Clark 3 The Cistercian Customaries   Emilia Jamroziak 4 The Carthusian Customaries   Stephen J. Molvarec and Tom Gaens 5 The Rule of Saint Augustine   Paul van Geest 6 The Customaries of Saint-Ruf   Ursula Vones-Liebenstein 7 The Premonstratensian Project   Carol Neel 8 Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights   Kristjan Toomaspoeg 9 The Dominican Constitutiones>   Gert Melville 10 The Rule of Saint Francis   Holly J. Grieco 11 The Rules of Poor Clares and Minoresses   Bert Roest 12 The Rule of the Franciscan Third Order   Jean-François Godet-Calogeras 13 The Carmelite Rule   Coralie Zermatten 14 The Augustinian Rules and Constitutions   Matthew Ponesse   Index

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Book SynopsisIn Liquid Ecclesiology Pete Ward explores the theological contours of the turn to ethnography in the study of the Christian Church. His approach rests on a theology of culture that holds in tension and paradox the expression of the Church and divine presence. This theological framework is then developed through an extended qualitative empirical case study examining the communicative practices of the contemporary evangelical Church. The case study examines how the evangelical Gospel through expression has become marginalised in the everyday life of communities being replaced by a new more individual and personalised theology seen in worship songs. The final section of the book returns to the debates around ethnographic forms of theology and the question of normativity. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in empirical and theological work, as well as those researching the contemporary Church and evangelicalismTrade Review<> In: Istina Volume LXV Issue 2 (2020). "This is a book for scholars who use or intend to use qualitative material in theological and ecclesiological work. Scholars interested in contemporary evangelical Christianity will also find Ward’s book useful and relevant." - Jonas Ideström, Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala, in: Anglical Theological Review 101.2, pp. 397-399. "Pete Ward is one of today’s exciting and ground-breaking voices in practical theology and ethnographic ecclesiology. In this profound and thought-provoking book, he engages with the key issues in studying the changing nature of the contemporary church. This is a rich and rewarding book that will repay careful study and sustained attention." - The Very Revd Prof. Martyn Percy, The Dean, Christ Church, Oxford, March 2017. "Whether in print or in person, Pete Ward will always make you think—flipping concepts, making connections, and breaking open the meaning of common Christian cultural practices often overlooked. He is known around the world for his unique ecclesiology, and this new volume promises an exciting new dimension to it. Liquid Ecclesiology is a book that will challenge you, as Pete always does, making you see things differently." - Professor Andrew Root, Luther Seminary, March 2017. "Pete Ward’s compelling study is written from the midst of the church’s life – a life lived in complex interaction with the whole of culture as much as in gathered worship. It is a passionate call to recognise and to celebrate the way in which any serious ecclesiology exists in fluid negotiation with the whole of this life." - Professor Mike Higton, Durham University, March 2017. "Liquid Ecclesiology displays how crucial it is for theology to take the empirical church seriously. Through a theologically ethnographic study of an evangelical church Ward explores the inevitable change that constitutes Christian community, showing how change as fluidity can be deeply constructive, not at odds with the continuity of faith." - Professor Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University, May 2017.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I - Currents in a Liquid Ecclesiology 1. The Gospel and the Church 2. The Gospel as Paradox and Light 3. Making Church: Gospel, Construction, and Ecclesial Fluidity 4. The Material Nature of the Gospel Part II - Discerning the Liquid Church: A Case Study 5. The Gospel and Change 6. Personal Faith 7. Narratives of Encounter 8. Evaluating the Case Study Part III - Abiding in a Liquid Ecclesiology 9. The Call to Abide 10. Seeing and Learning: Theological Education in the Church Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInquisitions of heresy have long fascinated both specialists and non-specialists. A Companion to Heresy Inquisitions presents a synthesis of the immense amount of scholarship generated about these institutions in recent years. The volume offers an overview of many of the most significant areas of heresy inquisitions, both medieval and early modern. The essays in this collection are intended to introduce the reader to disagreements and advances in the field, as well as providing a navigational aid to the wide variety of recent discoveries and controversies in studies of heresy inquisitions. Contributors: Christine Ames, Feberico Barbierato, Elena Bonora, Lúcia Helena Costigan, Michael Frassetto, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Helen Rawlings, Lucy Sackville, Werner Thomas, and Robin VoseTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Donald S. Prudlo Part 1: Origins of Inquisitions of Heretical Depravity  1 The Spiritual Foundations of Christian Heresy Inquisitions  Christine Caldwell Ames  2 Precursors to Religious Inquisitions: Anti-Heretical efforts to 1184  Michael Frassetto Part 2: Medieval Inquisitions  3 The Fourth Lateran Ordo of Inquisition Adapted to the Prosecution of Heresy  Henry Ansgar Kelly  4 The Church’s Institutional Response to Heresy in the 13th Century  Lucy Sackville  5 Heresy Inquisitions in the Later Middle Ages  Robin Vose Part 3: The Iberian Inquisitions  6 The Spanish Inquisition and the Converso Challenge (c.1480–1525): A Question of Race, Religion or Socio-Political Ascendancy?  Helen Rawlings  7 The Metamorphosis of the Spanish Inquisition, 1520–1648  Werner Thomas  8 The Rise of the Modern Inquisition in Portugal and Brazil, and the Transformation of Jews and New Christians into Heretics  Lúcia Helena Costigan Part 4: The Italian Inquisitions  9 The Takeover of the Roman Inquisition  Elena Bonora  10 Politics, Diplomacy and Religious Dissent. The Activity of the Inquisition in Early Modern Venice  Federico Barbierato  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisStudying Christianity in China introduces an emerging academic trend in contemporary Chinese scholarship. Through qualitative interviews with leading experts in Chinese Christian studies, Naomi Thurston has investigated the ongoing conversation between China and Christianity. Since the 1980s, this conversation has given rise to an interdisciplinary academic field that is quickly gaining traction as a cutting-edge, cross-cultural discourse. The Chinese intellectuals driving this field are encountered as unique transmitters of cultural knowledge: they are cultural mediators working in a range of humanities and social science disciplines who are not only re-interpreting Western theology, but are also lending a new voice to Chinese expressions of the Christian faith. As such, they are at the forefront of a novel force in World Christianity.Trade Review"Thurston succeeds in ascertaining the intellectual and theological depth that transcends intergenerational scholarship in China. This is quite the feat and quite the gift for English readers.", Erin Rafferty, Princeton Theological Seminary, in: Journal of World Christianity Volume 10.1 (2020) "In short, Thurston has written an insightful analysis of Sino-Christian humanism in contemporary China, and her findings should appeal to anyone interested in Chinese theology and church history." Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, in: Exchange Volume 48 (2019). "Those interested in ministering to mainland scholars will benefit from Thurston’s categorization of Chinese scholars of Christianity as well as the many personal interviews contained in this study. For those less directly engaged with Chinese scholars, this book provides four valuable insights that will affect the future of Christianity in China." - Chinasource Blog Posts, May 8, 2019 (link visited Sept. 9, 2019)Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Thomas Jansen Foreword by Jason Lam Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables and Charts Part 1: Introduction, Methodology and Background 1 Introduction  1.1 Sino-Christian Theology and Sino-Christian Studies  1.2 Background and Approach, Questions and Aims  1.3 Current State of Research and Works Consulted  1.4 Plan of the Chapters 2 Theory, Terms and Methodology  2.1 Approaching a Phenomenon: “What Manner of Men Are These?”  2.2 The Terminological Instability of “Sino-Christian Theology”  2.3 Methodology 3 Religious Studies and Christianity in China Today  3.1 Approaching Religion in Post-Secular Chinese Society  3.2 Confronting Chinese Modernity: Theology Versus Ethicization  3.3 Evaluating Sino-Christian Studies Part 2: Studying Christianity in China 4 Development and Institutional Context of Sino-Christian Studies  4.1 Institutions and Institutional Structures  4.2 Developing Christian Studies in Mainland China  4.3 Generational Distinctions Within the Sphere of Sino-Christian Studies 5 Trendsetting: Senior Scholars and the Social Sciences  5.1 China’s “Lost Generation”  5.2 Introducing Scholarly Types: The Common Thread of Academic Commitment  5.3 “Type 2”: Observing Christianity in Chinese Society  5.4 Historical Perspectives  5.5 Why the Marginal-Status Claim? 6 The Core of the Phenomenon: Senior Generation Theologians and Philosophers  6.1 Hong Kong Theologians: Mining the Symbolic Power of Sino-Christian Theology  6.2 Catholic Theology: A Beijing Theologian Shares His Perspective  6.3 Sino-Christian Theology: A Handmaiden for Philosophy?  6.4 The Potential of Sino-Christian Theology and Sino-Christian Studies 7 The Younger Scholars  7.1 Disciplinary Diversification Among the Younger Scholars  7.2 Recognizing the Accomplishments of Senior Scholars  7.3 The Missing Link of Biblical Studies  7.4 Vitality in the Margins  7.5 Christian and Non-Christian Identity Among the Younger Scholars  7.6 The Role of Theology 8 Analysis and Argumentation: Marginality and Sino-Christian Studies  8.1 Marginality and Prominence  8.2 Openness for the Marginal: Appraising the Interpretive Position of Tolerance  8.3 Inquiry, Discourse, Discipline: Legitimizing an Emerging Discourse  8.4 Suspended in Interdisciplinary Space Part 3: Conclusion and Appendix 9 Conclusion  9.1 Translating Christianity into Chinese  9.2 Insiders/Outsiders: Voices from the Margins  9.3 Contributions of the Study  9.4 Suggestions for Further Research  9.5 A Final Thought Appendix Interview Transcripts  1 Interview with Senior Generation Scholar, Theology and Religious Studies  2 Interview with Senior Generation Scholar, Theology and Religious Studies  3 Interview with Younger Scholar, Philosophy  4 Interview with Younger Scholar, Theology   Interview Guide (Interviews 10–38) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough the development of a “popular” brand of Confucianism in China is today a massive phenomenon, research on the topic remains scarce. Based on fieldwork carried out by a team of scholars in different parts of the country, the ambition of The Varieties of Confucian Experience is to contribute to the limited body of ethnographic accounts that aim to document and understand the diversity of phenomena encapsulated under the label “Confucian revival” in the first two decades of the 21st century.Trade Review"As a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Confucianism, this volume informs the reader about the degree to which Confucianism matters in contemporary Chinese society." -Yang Chen, El Colegio de México, in Review of Religion and Chinese Society 6 (2019) 297-317Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Contributors Introduction  Sébastien Billioud 1 The Birth of a New Religion: The Development of The Confucian Congregation in Southeast China  Chen Na, Fan Lizhu and Chen Jinguo 2 Making a Virtue of Piety: Dizigui and the Discursive Practice of Jingkong’s Network  Ji Zhe 汲喆 3 Popular Groups Promoting “The Religion of Confucius” in the Chinese Southwest and Their Activities since the Nineteenth Century (1840–2013): An Observation Centered on Yunnan’s Eryuan County and Environs  Wang Chien-Chuan 王見川 4 Belief and Faith: The Situation and Development of Confucianism in Yunnan Province  Chung Yun-ying 5 Civil Spirituality and Confucian Piety Today: The Activities of Confucian Temples in Qufu, Taipei, and Changchun  Nakajima Takahiro 6 The Revival of Traditional Culture and Religious Experience in Modern Urban Life: The Example of the Changchun Confucius Temple  Ishii Tsuyoshi 7 Contemporary Confucius Temples Life in Mainland China: Report from the Field  Anna Sun 8 Rites Bridging the Ancient and Modern: The Revival of Offerings at Urban Ancestral Temples  Chen Bisheng 9 An Adventure Called “Sishu”: The Tensions and Vagaries of a “Holistic” Educational Experience (zhengti jiaoyu) in Today’s Rural China  Guillaume Dutournier and Wang Yuchen 10 Confucian Revival and the Media: The CCTV “Lecture Room” Program  Fabrice Dulery Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Eusebio Kino to Daniel Berrigan, and from colonial New England to contemporary Seattle, Jesuits have built and disrupted institutions in ways that have fundamentally shaped the Catholic Church and American society. As Catherine O’Donnell demonstrates, Jesuits in French, Spanish, and British colonies were both evangelists and agents of empire. John Carroll envisioned an American church integrated with Protestant neighbors during the early years of the republic; nineteenth-century Jesuits, many of them immigrants, rejected Carroll’s ethos and created a distinct Catholic infrastructure of schools, colleges, and allegiances. The twentieth century involved Jesuits first in American war efforts and papal critiques of modernity, and then (in accord with the leadership of John Courtney Murray and Pedro Arrupe) in a rethinking of their relationship to modernity, to other faiths, and to earthly injustice. O’Donnell’s narrative concludes with a brief discussion of Jesuits’ declining numbers, as well as their response to their slaveholding past and involvement in clerical sexual abuse.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords 1. Introduction 2. Jesuits in the Colonial Era 3. New France Takes Root 4. Royal 5. The Pays d’en Haut and Louisiana 6. The Pimería Alta 7. Jesuits in the British North American Colonies 8. Maryland’s Founding 9. Early Years in Maryland 10. Maryland Transformed 11. Penal Era 12. Suppression 13. Jesuits in the New American Nation 14. Atlantic Currents 15. A New Society 16. A Growing Nation and Society 17. The West 18. Slavery and War 19. A World Apart? 20. The Work Continues 21. Education, Americanism, and Modernism 22. A Transformational Century 23. Toward Modernity 24. The Second World War 25. Controversy and Transformation 26. Toward the Present 27. Change Accelerates 28. Conclusion: Toward the Future Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFr. Luis Martín García was superior general of the Society of Jesus during one of the most fractious periods in western history, from 1892 to his death in 1906. Fortunately for both the church and his order, he was endowed with remarkable gifts of mind and spirit. He was also troubled with personal challenges that he had to face almost entirely on his own. As an aid, he kept a memoir, prodigious in both size and content, to be published posthumously. The memoir appeared in a critical Spanish edition in 1988. In this present book, David Schultenover provides a condensed English version of it along with an interpretation that engages the question, why would a Jesuit superior general leave to posterity such a candid memoir? The subtitle “Showing Up” provides a clue.Trade Review“David Schultenover, S.J.’s monumental study of the Jesuit superior general Luis Martín (1846–1906) leaves all students of modern Jesuit, Catholic, and Spanish history in his debt. […] This archival and editorial triumph will inform the work of the next generation of historians of Spanish Catholicism, at a minimum, but should influence scholars of the modern Catholic world more generally.” John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022), pp. 299–302. “By any measure, this work is monumental. […] It is an invaluable resource for historians of nineteenth-century Spain, modernization and laicism, church-state conflict, religion and religious life, mentalities and emotions.” Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago. In: Church History, 2022.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Abbreviations  Introduction: “Showing Up” Period 1. Formation, 1846–78: Melgar, Burgos, Loyola, Vals, Poyanne  1 Childhood, 1846–55  2 Latin School, 1855–58  3 Philosophy, 1858–61  4 Theology, 1861–64  5 Luis Martín’s Vocation to the Society of Jesus  6 Novitiate, Year 1, 1864–65  7 Novitiate, Year 2, 1865–66  8 Juniorate, 1866–68  9 Philosophy, 1868–70   1 First Year of Philosophy—Vals, France, 1868–69   2 Second Year of Philosophy—Poyanne, France, 1869–70  10 Regency: professor of Rhetoric, 1870–73   1 Academic Year 1, 1870–71   2 Academic Year 2, 1871–72   3 Academic Year 3, 1872–73  11 Study of Theology, 1873–77   1 First and Second Years of Theology, 1873–75   2 Third Year of Theology, 1875–76   3 Fourth Year of Theology, 1876–77  12 Third Probation (Tertianship), 1877–78 Period 2. Professor and Superior, 1878–86: Poyanne, Salamanca, Bilbao  13 Professor of Theology, 1878–80   1 First Year, 1878–79   2 Second Year, 1879–80  14 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: Year 1, 1880–81  15 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 2, 1881–82  16 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 3, 1882–83.Semester 1, Centenary of Saint Teresa  17 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 3, 1882–83.Semester 2  18 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 4, 1883–84  19 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 5, 1884–85  20 Bilbao: director of theMessenger, 1885–86  21 Bilbao: superior in Deusto, Trip to Italy, 1886 Period 3. Provincialate, 1886–91: Valladolid  22 Provincialate: year 1, December 1886–July 1887  23 Provincialate: year 1, July to December 1887  24 Provincialate: year 2, January to June 1888  25 Provincialate: year 2, July to September 1888  26 Provincialate: works in Loyola, Deusto, Bilbao, 1887–88  27 Provincialate: year 3, January to June 1889  28 Provincialate: year 3, Semester 2, 1889  29 The Residence of Santander and the College of Gijón, 1887–89  30 The Colleges of Burgos, Tudela, Valladolid, 1868–90  31 Provincialate: year 4, Semester 1, 1890, Jesuits Meddling in Politics  32 Provincialate: final Year, April 1890 to April 1891  33 Founding the Seminary of Comillas, 1878–91 Period 4. 1891–92: Substitutus, Vicar General, General Congregation 24  34 Substitutus in Jesuit Curia, Fiesole, 1891  35 Vicar General, 1892  36 Preparation for General Congregation 24, 1892  37 Trip to Loyola for General Congregation 24, 1892  38 General Congregation 24: first Sessions, September 23–28, 1892  39 Election of Luis Martín as the Twenty-Fourth Superior General, October 2, 1892  40 Felicitations on the Election  41 General Congregation 24:other Elections  42 General Congregation 24:discussion of the First Postulata  43 General Congregation 24:postulata on Religious Discipline  44 General Congregation 24:decree on Poverty  45 General Congregation 24: decree on Studies  46 General Congregation 24: conclusion Period 5. Generalate, 1892–1906  47 Procurators Congregations, 1896, 1899, 1902   1 Procurators Congregation of 1896   2 Procurators Congregation of 1899    2.1 First Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators Congregation of 1899    2.2 Second Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators Congregation of 1899   3 Procurators Congregation of 1902    3.1 First Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators Congregation of 1902    3.2 Second Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators of 1902  48 Problems in Spain: salamanca, 1894  49 Problems in Spain: father Mir, 1896  50 Spanish Politics   1 Bishop Cámara and the Jesuits of Salamanca   2 Audience with the Pope   3 Interviews with the Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See   4 Correspondence with Cánovas del Castillo   5 Visits of Don Carlos and Don Jaime de Borbón   6 The Integrist Split and Its Repercussions in the Society   7 The 1894 Pilgrimage of Laborers   8 The Complaints of Segismundo Moret and Cardinal Rampolla   9 The Proposed Journal of Fr. Francisco de Paula Garzón   10 The Situation in the Three Spanish Provinces during 1895–97   11 The Attacks of Pey y Ordeix in El urbión   12 New Political Nuances at the End of the Century   13 Fr. Alarcón and El Mensajero   14 Opinions and Actions of Luis Martín in the Carlism-Integrism Polemic   15 New Siege of the Society of Jesus by Nocedal, 1900   16 The Complaints of Cardinal Cascajares   17 The Opening of Electra and Its Consequences   18 The Situation in Spain at the Beginning of the New Century    18.1 Persecution of the Religious Orders    18.2 A New Attack by Pey y Ordeix    18.3 Relations with the Carlist Royal Family    18.4 Integrism and the Unión de los Católicos     18.4.1 Attempts to Found the Unión Católica in 1902     18.4.2 The Tensions between Razón y fe and El Mensajero and Pius X’s Letter to the Bishop of Madrid (1905–6)     18.4.3 El Siglo futuro Is Allowed to Be Received in the Houses of the Society  51 The War of Cuba and the Philippines, 1895–98   1 Interviews with Very Reverend Father General  52 Luis Martín’s Account of His Final Illness, 1905  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisIn An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola’s early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola’s homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confronted indifference and interference from the Spanish monarchy and outright opposition from other religious orders. This essay outlines the order’s ministerial and pedagogical activities, its relationship with women and with royal institutions, including the Spanish Inquisition, and Spanish members’ roles in theological debates concerning casuistry, free will, and the immaculate conception. It also considers the impact of Jesuits’ non-religious writings.Trade Review“Manning’s work merits attention from scholars at all levels of study interested in the Society of Jesus in Spain. For those new to the field, it includes a glossary of commonly used terms and applicable English equivalents, as well as a comprehensive bibliography. Her panoramic view of Jesuit activity across multiple social sectors is sure to appeal to experts in the discipline as well since she attends to major events and personages while illuminating the Jesuits’ presence in the popular imagination throughout the essay.” Brandan Grayson, Anderson University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 295–297.Table of ContentsContents An Overview of the Pre-Suppression Society of Jesus in Spain  Patricia W. Manning  Abstract  Keywords  Glossary of Frequently Used Terms  1 Introduction  2 Ignatius of Loyola  3 The Early Years of the Society of Jesus in Spain  4 Borja and Mercurian’s Generalates  5 Encounters with the Inquisition  6 Admission Redux: Excluding Conversos from the Society  7 Aiding Catholics under Siege  8 The Question of Religiously Minded Women  9 Theological Debates  10 Jesuits’ Roles in the Inquisition in the Seventeenth Century  11 Jesuit Aprobación Writers  12 Pedagogy  13 Preaching  14 Publications by Jesuits  15 Jesuit Celebrations  16 Domestic Life in the Society  17 Seventeenth-Century Crises  18 Controlling Chocolate and Tobacco Usage in the Society  19 The Immaculate Conception, Part 2: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  20 Publications Unfavorable to the Order  21 The Expulsion  22 The Aftermath  23 Conclusion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSince its announcement by Xi Jinping in 2015, “Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? What effects is it having on Chinese religions? Where will it lead? This book, with contributions from experts in the major religious traditions in China, is one of the first in English that answers these questions. From the top down, Sinicization is a project to control all forms of religion in China, even ancient indigenous forms, to make them conform to the demands of its Party-State. From the bottom up, however, religious believers are using the slogan either to sincerely attempt to adapt traditional practices to their modern cultural context or to protect their faith by offering lip service to government demands – or some combination of the two.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Richard Madsen 1 Sinicization or Chinafication?  Cultural Assimilation vs. Political Domestication of Christianity in China and Beyond   Fenggang Yang 2 “Official Confucianism” as Newly Sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party   Yong Chen 3 The Sinicization of Buddhism and Its Competing Reinventions of Tradition   Weishan Huang 4 Already Post-Modern: Buddhist Stone Images in Luoyang and the Question of Sinicization  Buddhist Stone Images in Luoyang and the Question of Sinicization   Dong Wang 5 Faith in the Future/Practices of the Past  A Sinicized Islamic Revival among the Hui of Xining   Alexander Stewart 6 Xiejiao, Cults, and New Religions: Making Sense of the New Un-Sinicized Religions on China’s Fringe   J. Gordon Melton Index

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Book SynopsisProtestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age demarcates the field of religious periodical studies by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from different Protestant traditions drawn from various regions of the world. Taking religion, periodicals, and their cultures seriously, this volume focuses not only on content but on the people, processes, networks, technologies, and economics involved in periodical publishing. Case studies explore the role of the Protestant magazine in defining, policing, and extending the boundaries of religious communities, of engaging with and influencing the surrounding society through political activism and lifestyle advice, and adapting to and sometimes spearheading technological changes to keep relevant in changing times.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Keeping the Faith in Protestant Periodical Cultures  Anja-Maria Bassimir and Stefan Gelfgren PART 1: Community Introduction to Part 1 1 motive Magazine and the Ambiguity of Denominational Journalism in the Twentieth Century United States  Skylar Ray 2 Christian Magazines and Audience Connection: an Exploration of African Publications and Their Relationship to Technology and Media  Tamara J. Welter 3 Jehovah Online: Magazines in the New Media Landscape of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Switzerland and Germany  Andrea Rota PART 2: Mission and Politics Introduction to Part 2 4 The Religious Magazine Nya Väktaren and the Skepparslöv Case of 1937–1938 in Sweden as a Media Campaign  Daniel Lindmark 5 Between Ferdinand Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte: Autocratic Politics and Ministry Digest in the Philippines  Giovanni Maltese 6 Health and Lifestyle as Marketing Strategies for Winning Souls: the Magazine Vida e Saúde of Brazilian Seventh-Day Adventists  Karina Kosicki Bellotti PART 3: Innovation Introduction to Part 3 7 Ecumenical Trends in Dutch Reformed Periodicals in the Twentieth Century  Christoph van den Belt 8 Christian Conservatism in Ecumenical Disguise in the United States: from the Christian Century to First Things  Philipp Reisner 9 Social Media as Periodicals? Tradition and Continuity in Conservative and Charismatic Movements  Stefan Gelfgren 10 Evangelicals and Social Media in the United States  Michael Longinow Index

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