Early Modern Catholic Missions in Brazil: The Challenge of the Outsiders
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
A Companion to Early Modern Global Catholic Mission
Abstract
A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays by historians from eight countries offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia, but also the complex political, cultural, and religious contexts of the missionary fields.
The conquests and colonization of the Americas presented a different stage for the drama of evangelization in contrast to that of Africa and Asia: the inhospitable landscape of Africa, the implacable Islamic societies of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, and the self-assured regimes of Ming-Qing China, Nguyen dynasty Vietnam, and Tokugawa Japan.
Recommended Citation
McGinness, Anne, "Early Modern Catholic Missions in Brazil: The Challenge of the Outsiders" (2018). 2018 Faculty Bibliography. 8.
https://collected.jcu.edu/fac_bib_2018/8
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