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Book SynopsisIn exploring the shifting realities of missionary experience during the course of imperialist ventures and the Catholic Reformation, The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism provides a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era. Bringing together leading international scholars, the volume tests the assumption that uniformity and co-ordination governed early modern missionary enterprise, and examines the effects of distance and de-centering on a variety of missionaries and religious orders. Its essays focus squarely on the experiences of the missionaries themselves to offer a nuanced consideration of the meaning of ‘missionary Catholicism’, and its evolving relationship with newly discovered cultures and political and ecclesiastical authorities.
Trade Review"The Frontiers of Mission … will compel scholars to continue to break down barriers between subfields and further nuance the conversation concerning early modern missionary Catholicism that this collection has stimulated." Robert John Clines, Western Carolina University. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, Fasc. 170 (2016/II), pp. 556-558.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps Notes on Contributors Alison Forrestal and Seán Alexander Smith Re-thinking Missionary Catholicism for the Early Modern Era Karin Vélez “Do not suppose that those tears proceed from weakness’’: Jesuit Weeping on Mission Frontiers, 1560-1760 Dominique Deslandres Female Voices and Agencies on the Canadian Missionary Frontier, according to Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation (1599-1672) Seán Alexander Smith “Virtue in the extreme is worth nothing”: Mortification and Mission in Madagascar, 1648-1674 Andrew Redden Not-So-Good Shepherds: Reluctant Jesuit Martyrs on the Seventeenth-Century Chilean Frontier Andrew P. McCormick Serving God and Caesar: Pierre-François Viguier’s Reconnaissance Mission to the Archipelago (1778-1779) Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Catholic Missionary Activity in the Northern Balkans in the Seventeenth Century Megan C. Armstrong Spiritual Legitimisation? Franciscan Competition over the Holy Land (1517-1700) Ronnie Po-chia Hsia Mission Frontiers: A Reflection on Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World
