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In exploring the shifting realities of missionary experience during the course of imperialist ventures and the Catholic Reformation, The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism provides a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era. Bringing together leading international scholars, the volume tests the assumption that uniformity and co-ordination governed early modern missionary enterprise, and examines the effects of distance and de-centering on a variety of missionaries and religious orders. Its essays focus squarely on the experiences of the missionaries themselves to offer a nuanced consideration of the meaning of 'missionary Catholicism', and its evolving relationship with newly discovered cultures and political and ecclesiastical authorities.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
Notes on Contributors
Alison Forrestal and Seán Alexander Smith
Re-thinking Missionary Catholicism for the Early Modern Era
Karin Vélez
"Do not suppose that those tears proceed from weakness'': Jesuit Weeping on Mission Frontiers, 1560-1760
Dominique Deslandres
Female Voices and Agencies on the Canadian Missionary Frontier, according to Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation (1599-1672)
Seán Alexander Smith
"Virtue in the extreme is worth nothing": Mortification and Mission in Madagascar, 1648-1674
Andrew Redden
Not-So-Good Shepherds: Reluctant Jesuit Martyrs on the Seventeenth-Century Chilean Frontier
Andrew P. McCormick
Serving God and Caesar: Pierre-François Viguier's Reconnaissance Mission to the Archipelago (1778-1779)
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
Catholic Missionary Activity in the Northern Balkans in the Seventeenth Century
Megan C. Armstrong
Spiritual Legitimisation? Franciscan Competition over the Holy Land (1517-1700)
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
Mission Frontiers: A Reflection on Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World
