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Trade and finance in global missions (16th-18th centuries)
Title
Trade and finance in global missions (16th-18th centuries) / edited by Hélène Vu Thanh and Ines G. Županov.
ISBN
9789004444171
9004444173
9789004444195
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Physical Description
xvii, 314 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Summary
"The book was drafted by Jesuits and their students of the Flemish province to commemorate the Society of Jesus's hundred years of existence. It was as much a homage to the Society's founders as a celebration of the spiritual and material achievements of its members over the century, with a particular emphasis on the order's missionary vocation. From the moment of its publication, the Imago was attacked by the Jesuits' enemies: both Protestants and Jansenists denounced the Society's arrogance as well as its casuistical methods. Here is not the place to relate the history of the work or its reception, but it seemed essential to us to highlight the significance of the emblems illustrating the book's"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2021
Series
Studies in Christian mission, v. 57
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Missionaries as Traders: The Case of the Society of Jesus. The Cross and the Silk: Trading Activities by the Society of Jesus in Japan (1549-1650) / Hélène Vu Thanh
Yerba Maté in the Jesuit Reductions: From Ritual Drink to Economic Resource (17th-18th Centuries) / Claudio Ferlan
Part 2: The Integration of Religious Orders into Global/Local Economic Networks. From Tenants to Landlords: Jesuits and Land Ownership in Japan (1552-1614) / Rômulo da Silva Ehalt
Going Local, Becoming Global: The Connected Histories of Early Modern Missionary Economies in Persia and the Persian Gulf / Christian Windler
Monsoonal Missions: Asian Trade Diasporas in Spanish Missionary Strategies, 1570-1700 / Ryan D. Crewe.
Part 3: Funding the Missions: Finances and Evangelization. Funding the Propagation of the Faith: Noble Strategies and the Financial Support of Jesuit Colleges in France and Italy (c.1590-c.1650) / Ariane Boltanski
The College of San Hermenegildo in Seville: The Centerpiece of a Global Financial Network / Sébastien Malaprade.
Part 4: Moralizing the Economy: Religious Controversies and Debates. Missionaries as Merchants and Mercenaries: Religious Controversies over Commerce in Southeast Asia / Tara Alberts
Regulating the Forbidden: Local Rules and Debates on the Missionary Economy in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay (17th-18th Centuries) / Fabian Fechner
Afterword: For What Is a Man Profited, if He Shall Gain the Whole World, and Lose His Own Soul? / Ines G. Županov.
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