
Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures
The Expansion of Catholicism in the Early Modern World
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 5. October 2017
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-90-04-33600-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Contributors are: Takao Abe, Anand Amaladass, Leonhard Cohen, Renate Duerr, Antje Fluechter, Ana Hosne, Giulia Nardini, John Odemark, John Steckley, Alexandra Walsham, Rouven Wirbser.
Contributors are: Takao Abe, Anand Amaladass, Leonhard Cohen, Renate Duerr, Antje Fluechter, Ana Hosne, Giulia Nardini, John Odemark, John Steckley, Alexandra Walsham, Rouven Wirbser.
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Language
Other
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
728 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-33600-1 (9789004336001)
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Antje Fluechter, Ph.D. (2002), Bielefeld University, is Professor for Early Modern History at that university. She has published several works and articles on early modern global history, the history of the confessional age, the history of knowledge and gender history.
Rouven Wirbser, M.A. (2014) is PhD student at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology at Bielefeld University. In his PhD project he researches the activities of the Jesuit order in the German region of Westphalia.
Rouven Wirbser, M.A. (2014) is PhD student at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology at Bielefeld University. In his PhD project he researches the activities of the Jesuit order in the German region of Westphalia.