Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Marianas (1668-1769)

ISBN-13: 9780367263898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 382 str.

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

Opis

This book is framed within the process of historiographical renovation of the scholarship on the early modern Christian missions in the Pacific, studying the complexities of Jesuit missionisation in the Micronesian islands of Guam and the Marianas.

 

Spis treści

Preface.  Francis X. Hezel, SJ.  Acknowledgments.  Introduction  Part I: Colonization and Sanctity in the Marianas  1. The Blood of Martyrs (1668-1676)  2. The Soldiers of Gideon (1677-1699)  Part II: From the Marianas’ Crisis to Salvationist Utopia  3. Corruption, Greed and the Public Good (1700-1730)  4. From Christian Universalism to Jesuit Cosmopolitanism: The Caroline Islands (1700-1735)  5. Transoceanic Bigamists (1700-1747)  Part III: The Baroque Representation of Power  6. Phoenix in the Marianas (1747)  Part IV: The Jesuits Under Suspicion  7. Lights and Shadows: The Inquisitorial Process Against the Jesuit Congregation of Nuestra Señora de la Luz (1758-1776).  Afterword.

O autorze

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa is Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).