{"product_id":"the-jesuit-missions-of-paraguay-and-a-cultural-history-of-utopia-1568-1789-9789004350595","title":"The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 documentation to highlight three key aspects of this debate: the relationship between civilisation and religion, between religion and political imagination, and between utopia and history.  Girolamo Imbruglia's analysis of the Jesuits' own narrative reveals that the idea and the practice of mission have been one of the essential features of the European identity, and of the shaping modern political thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an excellent and well-read piece of thinking, and an interesting approach to the longue durée of belief and practice.\" Sarah Barber, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History Volume 70 (2019).    \"The invaluable contribution of Imbruglia’s monograph is obvious: While the numerous tracts, reports and pamphlets about the Jesuit missions in Paraguay were used until recently only as arsenals for isolated pro-Jesuit or anti-Jesuit arguments, Imbruglia has instead analysed them as part of a dialogue which reaches far beyond mission history, deep inside the history of the underlying ideas that informed it. Paraguay has once more moved closer to Europe.\" - Fabian Fechner, Fernuniversität, Hagen, in: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu Volume LXXXVII.174, 2018-II, pp. 517-518.    \"The concept of utopia belongs to a very long tradition, and the Christian and civic humanist—not only Platonic but also Ciceronian—contexts would have benefited from a more in-depth exploration. This of course does not deny the impressive contribution of this book in correcting the tendency in the historiography to ignore the broader horizons of European political thought; it is a valuable addition for anyone interested in the history of the Jesuit missions and ideal-society tropes.\" - Catherine Ballériaux, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, in: Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXII.1, pp. 317-318.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  The Hybrid Society of the Missions   The Indians    Life in the missions    Religion   Institutions   The end   Missions and Modern Public Opinion: The Cultural History of Utopia  1 Europeans and Religious Orders in America  The Jesuit Reducciones of Paraguay  Compelle Intrare   De Vitoria   Fray Martin de Valencia   Las Casas    Quiroga and Cabrera   The Barbarians from Europe  The First Jesuit Missions in Peru  Acosta and the Jesuit Strategy of Accommodation   A ‘new type of mankind’    Religion and Superstition    The Missionary Strategy of Accommodation   2 The Society of Jesus – Missionaries and Missions  Religion   Preaching   Beyond Millenarism    The Jesuit Missionary   The ‘State’ of Paraguay   Reason of State    Suárez  The People of the Missions   The Litterae Annuae    The Missions and Their Nations    The Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu    Miracles, Missionaries, and Sanctity   3 The Missions and Public Opinion in the Crisis of European Conscience – Utopias and Republicanism  Religion and Public Opinion   The Lettres édifiantes et curieuses and the Missions    The Mémoires de Trévoux    The ‘real’ Paraguay at the Start of the Eighteenth Century   Ludovico Antonio Muratori   The Metamorphosis of the Missions into Utopia   The Apostolic Community    Theocracy   The Missions as Utopia – A Literary Genre    After More’s Utopia   Utopia between Police and Sovereignty   4 Montesquieu, Republican Utopia and Civilisation  Montesquieu and the Political Theory of Utopia   Republic and Freedom in the Jesuit Missions; Montesquieu’s Silence    Republics without Virtue    The Birth of the State    Colonisation   Montesquieu and the Jesuits   After the Esprit des Lois    Civilisation   Civilisation and Colonisation    Morelly’s Ideal Republic   5 The Age of the Encyclopédie and Rousseau: New Paths and New Needs to Rethink Utopianism   The Encyclopédie    Paraguay   Theocracy  Rousseau  Which Utopia?  6 1750s–1770s: Political and Social Conflicts  News from Paraguay  Voltaire – Politics without Utopia  The Parliaments and the End of the Society of Jesus  D’Alembert  The Social Problem of Utopia: A Debate at the End of the 1760s   The People of the Missions and the People of Paris – Mably    Physiocracy’s Opposition to Mably    Linguet  The Reformist Utopia of Helvétius  7 Utopias and Human Sciences – Diderot’s Analysis of Society  Echoes of Travel  Bessner and Malouet  De Pauw  Bougainville  Deleyre  The Histoire des deux Indes   Raynal  Diderot. Happiness and Politics   The Society of Jesus and the Science of the Legislator  8 Beyond the Lumières  History, Civilisation, and the End of Utopia  Communities and Rebels without a Revolution   Philosophical Communities   Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210730692951,"sku":"9789004350595","price":146.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jesuit-missions-of-paraguay-and-a-cultural-history-of-utopia-1568-1789-9789004350595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}