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For three centuries, the former Portuguese colony of Macau served as the gateway into mainland China and the locale for the development of an Asian Catholic culture that encompassed distinctive musical practices and styles. Macau and Catholic Music Across the Sino-Western Divide draws extensively upon historical documents in Chinese and Portuguese for a polylingual approach to Catholic sacred music. Jen-yen Chen follows this music from the sixteenth century through the twentieth by reading literary accounts of sound, primary source documents, and musical notation to examine the impacts of linguistic, political, and cultural divides and the ways sounds have traveled across these divides. Chen covers Chinese responses to Western sounds in Macau and southern China, illuminating the strategies for the use of sounds and musicking adopted by Jesuit missionaries; and the complexities of identity formation negotiated by Macau Catholics who confront exceptionalist historical discourses of Chinese or Portuguese “greatness.” Drawing from sound studies and musicological methods, Chen argues that Chinese descriptions of Catholic sounds in Macau, including the ringing of church bells, the playing of the organ, and choral singing, illuminate spatial, sonic, and ideological mobilities that reconfigure Chinese and European identities. Macau and Catholic Music Across the Sino-Western Divide also extends to contemporary times to explore how present day members of Macau’s Catholic community position themselves in relation to the historical narratives often told about their city, cultivating a rich individuality of identity that refuses conformity to fixed notions of Asianness or Westernness.

This is a biography of Cardinal John Tong of Hong Kong, which charts his experiences through the Second World War, his time as a seminarian in Macau, and his studies in Rome during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which represented a pivotal moment in modern Catholic Church history

This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children’s primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582–1649) while living in Fujian, China. This book also includes masterful translations of both Wang Yinglin’s (1551–1602) hallowed Confucian Three Character Classic and Aleni’s Chinese catechism that was published during the Qing (1644–1911). Clark’s careful reading of the Four Character Classic provides new insights into an area of the Jesuit mission in early modern China that has so far been given little attention, the education of children. This book underscores how Aleni’s published work functions as a good example of the Jesuit use of normative Chinese print culture to serve the catechetical exigencies of the Catholic mission in East Asia, particularly his meticulous imitation of Confucian children’s primers to promote decidedly Christian content.

Intro -- A Companion to Early ModernCatholic Global Missions -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The Americas -- Missionizing Mexico: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and the Spread of Christianity -- Conquering the Conquest -- Europeans in Evangelization -- Natives in Evangelization -- An Evolving Evangelization -- The Andes -- Introduction -- 1. First Evangelization in the Central Andes (1532-1583) -- 2. Trent in the Andes -- 3. Missions in the Margins -- 4. Evangelizing Indigenous Languages -- 5. Andean Catholicism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Missions of Paraguay: Rise, Expansion and Fall -- Mission Ethnogenesis -- The Missioned Societies -- Shamans' Power -- Indios Letrados -- Urban Structure and Daily Routine -- Ruling Through Letters -- The Final Phase -- Conclusion -- Early Modern Catholic Missions in Brazil: The Challenge of the Outsiders -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Background -- 4.3 Jesuit Missions -- 4.4 Historiography -- 4.5 Jesuit Support of Slavery and Violence Versus Jesuit Accommodation -- 4.6 Four European Powers and Their Challenge to Catholicism in Brazil -- 4.7 Atlantic and Global History and the Missions -- 4.8 Future Research -- 4.9 Conclusion -- New France -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The State of Current Research and Desiderata for Future Directions of Research -- 5.3 History of the Missions in New France -- 5.4 The Missions, the Fusion of the People, and the Expansion of French Sovereignty -- 5.5 Women Missionaries and Missionized Women -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Africa -- Catholic Missions and Local Rulers in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Catholic Kings of Kongo and its Surrounds -- 6.3 Angola: From Diplomacy to Force -- 6.4 Mutapa -- 6.5 The Bight of Benin -- 6.6 Sierra Leone to Senegal -- 6.7 Conclusion -- Islamic World

A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays offers a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

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Este livro reúne contributos sobre o Padroado e sobre as missões, revisitando conceitos e perspectivas sobre o tema. Tratam-se aspectos tão diversificados como o culto e a religiosidade; a arte e a cultura; as missões e o império; a relação da monarquia com a Santa Sé e do Padroado com a De Propaganda Fide; a formação do clero nativo e a acção dos catequistas, a criação de seminários e o percurso atribulado das estratégias do Padroado; os caminhos do poder e os confrontos institucionais, os factos e as doutrinas.

The Jesuit Archives in Rome (Archium Romanum Societatus Iesu) contains books and manuscripts from the Ming (1369-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) dynasties on Chinese history, Chinese and Western philosophy, astronomy and other sciences; volumes by Westerners introducing Christian thought to the Chinese; and works by Chinese Christians comparing what they were taught by the Jesuits with the Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian traditions. Many works deal with the famous Chinese rites controversy. There are also volumes that treat other religious groups such as the Muslims and the Jews. The archive has a collection of some of the first Chinese-Western dictionaries. Some of the works include marginal annotations by the emperors of China, famous Chinese scholars, and Jesuit missionaries and much, much more. This catalogue consists of careful descriptions of all these archival items with bibliographical sources pertaining to them. English is the main language, but Latin, other European languages, and Chinese (with characters) are also abundant.

Esta Bibliografia publica as referências de 9950 itens bibliográficos editados entre 1960 e 2000, e que versam sobre temas de interesse para a História da Igreja em Portugal. Corresponde à continuação e revisão de um trabalho inicialmente publicado na revista "Humanística e Teologia".