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Book SynopsisThe Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of fourteen articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The controversy started in Jesuit Asian missions where the method of accommodation, based on translation of Christianity into Asian cultural idioms, created a distinction between civic and religious customs. Civic customs were defined as those that could be included into Christianity and permitted to the new converts. However, there was no universal consensus among the various actors in these controversies as to how to establish criteria for distinguishing civility from religion. The controversy had not been resolved, but opened the way to radical religious scepticism. Contributors are: Claudia Brosseder, Michela Catto, Gita Dharampal-Frick, Pierre Antoine Fabre, Ana Carolina Hosne, Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Giuseppe Marcocci, Ovidiu Olar, Sabina Pavone, István Perczel, Nicholas Standaert, Margherita Trento, Guillermo Wilde and Ines G. Županov.
Trade Review"This collection of essays is a welcome contribution to the study of missionary and indigenous debates regarding non-Christian rites, precisely because this volume widens its purview to include the missionary enterprise beyond China. (...) Županov and Fabre have managed to solicit and inspire contributors who have produced a remarkably interrelated collection of chapters. (...) This volume is an important contribution to the dialogue between cultures, and between scholars of the past and present." - Anthony E. Clark, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, Journal of Jesuit Studies Volume 6 (2019), pp. 327-330.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations List of Frequently Used Abbreviations List of Contributors The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World: An Introduction Ines G. Županov and Pierre Antoine Fabre Part 1: Chinese Rites and Jesuit Missions 1 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: From China to Rome Ronnie Po-chia Hsia 2 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Role of Christian Communities Nicolas Standaert 3 Atheism: A Word Travelling To and Fro Between Europe and China Michela Catto Part 2: Malabar Rites between Mission and History 4 Śivadharma or Bonifacio? Behind the Scenes of the Madurai Mission Controversy (1608–1619) Margherita Trento 5 Revisiting the Malabar Rites Controversy: A Paradigm of Ritual Dynamics in the Early Modern Catholic Missions of South India Gita Dharampal-Frick Part 3: Mission and Inquisition 6 Rites and Inquisition: Ethnographies of Error in Portuguese India (1560–1625) Giuseppe Marcocci 7 Jesuits and Oriental Rites in the Documents of the Roman Inquisition Sabina Pavone Part 4: Rites Controversies: Far and Near 8 Accommodationist Strategies on the Malabar Coast: Competition or Complementarity? Istvan Perczel 9 Orthodoxy and Politics: The Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the Prince Mihnea III Radu of Walachia and the Great Church of Constantinople Ovidiu Olar Part 5: Idols, Idolatry and Catholic Mission 10 Writing Rites in the Borderlands: Appropriation, Mimesis and Interaction between Jesuits and Indians in Colonial South America Guillermo Wilde 11 “Secularizing” the Andes: The Effects of Transcultural Processes on Colonial Andean Rituals Claudia Brosseder 12 Dios, Dio, Viracocha, Tianzhu: “Finding” and “Translating” the Christian God in the Overseas Jesuit Missions (16th–18th Centuries) Ana Carolina Hosne Epilogues: Rites Controversies as Cultural Resources 13 A Cross Concealed Among Flowers: Interpreting a Secret Ritual in Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Communities Pierre Antoine Fabre 14 Against Rites: Jesuit Accommodatio as Pietist Preparatio Evangelica in Eighteenth Century South India Ines G. Županov Index
