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Book SynopsisThe present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in June 2017. In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit legacy: in South Asia, they benefited from pioneering Jesuit ethnographers while contesting their conversions; in Japan, all Christian missionaries who returned after 1853 faced the equation of Japanese nationalism with anti-Jesuit persecution; and in China, Protestants scrambled to catch up to the cultural legacy bequeathed by the earlier Jesuit mission. In the Americas, Protestants presented Jesuits as enemies of liberal modernity, supporters of medieval absolutism yet master manipulators of modern self-fashioning and the printing press. The evidence suggests a far more complicated relationship of both Protestants and Jesuits as co-creators of the bright and dark sides of modernity, including the public sphere, public education, plantation slavery, and colonialism.
Trade Review"The reader interested in Jesuit missions will gain a new perspective on how these missions were perceived over time and by different religious entities. Most any reader will learn from these erudite essays or at the very least be able to use them as helpful reference and bibliographic tools for much needed further research not only of Jesuit missions but those of other orders as well." Thomas J. Santa Maria (Yale) in The Sixteenth Century Journal “The essays in this collection complicate the narrative of animosity, often drawing attention to contexts where cooperation or inheritance were the more compelling markers of Jesuit-Protestant interactions.” Andrew T. Kaiser, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (2020), pp. 653–654.
Table of ContentsIFigures Introduction: Protestantism and Early Jesuits Robert Aleksander Maryks Part 1: Asia 1 Introduction Ronnie Po-chia Hsia 2 We are Not Jesuits: Reassessing Relations between Protestantism, French Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus in Late Tokugawa to Early Shōwa Japan Makoto Harris Takao 3 Kirishitan Veneration of the Saints: Jesuit and Dutch Witnesses Haruko Nawata Ward 4 Jesuit and Protestant Use of Vernacular Chinese in Accommodation Policy Sophie Ling-chia Wei 5 Shaping the Anthropological Context of the “Salus populi Sinensis” Madonna Icon in Xian, China Hui-Hung Chen 6 Jesuit and Protestant Encounters in Jiangnan: Contest and Cooperation in China’s Lower Yangzi Region Steven Pieragastini 7 Protestant and Jesuit Encounters in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Délio Mendonça 8 Beyond Words: Missionary Grammars and the Construction of Language in Tamil Country Michelle Zaleski Part 2: The Americas 9 Introduction: Jesuit Liminal Space in Liberal Protestant Modernity Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 10 José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit–Protestant Author: Print Culture, Contingency, and Deliberate Silence in the Making of the Canon Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 11 Negotiating the Confessional Divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: The Case of Manoel de Morães Anne B. McGinness 12 A French Jesuit Parish, without the Jesuits: Grand Bay’s Catholic Community and Institutional Durability in British Dominica Steve Lenik 13 “Tis nothing but French Poison, all of it”: Jesuit and Calvinist Missions on the New World Frontier Catherine Ballériaux 14 “Americans, you are marked for their prey!” Jesuits and the Nineteenth-century Nativist Impulse Robert Emmett Curran 15 Wars of Words: Catholic and Protestant Jesuitism in Nineteenth-century America Steven Mailloux
