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In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times.
The book examines the period of early Portuguese contacts with the Ethiopian monarchy, the mission's main developments and its aftermath, with the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. The study profits from both an intense reading of the historical record and the fruits of recent archaeological research. Long-held historiographical assumptions are challenged and the importance of cultural and socio-political factors in the attraction and ultimate estrangement between European Catholics and Ethiopian Christians is highlighted.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures, Maps, Plates and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Glossary of Terms
Introduction
PART 1 From Diu to Fǝremona
1 The Prester John's New Clothes
The Courting of the nǝguś
Dom João III: Religious Reform as Expansion
The Preste's New Clothes
2 From Santiago to St. Paul
Evangelizing the Preste
Santiago's Last Call
Paul's Momentum
3 Native Networks
The Carreira to the Preste
Diu and the Banyans
Massawa, Fǝremona and the Ethio-Portuguese
PART 2 From Fǝremona to Gorgora
4 Mission Metrics
1555-1603: Difficult Beginnings
1603-1623: Setting up a Local Missionary Network
1623-1632: The Catholic Patriarchate and the Expansion of the Network
5 Mission Politics
The Redução of Christian Ethiopia
Observation, Deconstruction, and Replacement of Ethiopian
Christianity
Beyond Absolutism
6 Mission Culture
The Presentation of Self in Missionary Life
A Theology of the Visible
Spaces of Faith, Spaces of Power
Mission Support
PART 3 From Gorgora to Goa
7 Yäṭǝnt
Utopian Ethiopia
The Mission of the Qwälläfä and Chalcedonians
From Dissent to Open Resistance
8 Exile and Memory
The Mission after the Jesuits
Longing for Ethiopia
A Mission between Oblivion and Curiosity
9 Conclusions
Appendix 1 Leading Political Figures in the Red Sea, India, and Europe, ca. 1600-1635
Appendix 2 National and Provincial Rulers in Christian Ethiopia, 1603-1636
Appendix 3 Jesuit Missionaries in Ethiopia, 1555-1632
Appendix 4 Intellectual Production during the Mission, 1611-1632
Appendix 5 Genealogical Chart of the Extended Ethiopian Royal Family (ca. 1550-1640)
Sources and bibliography
Index