Translating catechisms, translating cultures : the expansion of Catholicism in the early modern world / edited by Antje Fluchter and Rouven Wirbser.
Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures' explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities; the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translation in the context of several Jesuit missionary strategies. The volume chall...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in Christian mission ;
v. 52. |
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| Summary: | Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures' explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities; the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translation in the context of several Jesuit missionary strategies. The volume challenges the often assumed paramount Europeanness of Western Christianity. In the early modern period the idea of Tridentine Catholicism was translated into many different regions where it was appropriated and adopted to local conditions. Missionary work always entails translation, linguistic as well as cultural, which results in a modification of the content. Catechisms were central instruments to communicate Christian belief and, therefore, they are central media for all kinds of translation processes. The comparative approach (including China, India, Japan, Ethiopia, Northern America and England) enables the evaluation of different factors like power relations, social differentiation, cultural patterns, gender roles etc. |
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| Item Description: | "The present volume is the proceedings of the Conference "Comparing Catechisms - Entangling Christian History" (14-16 May 2014) organized by Antje Fluchter" --ECIP galley. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 372 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004336001 9004336001 |