Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Alison Forrestal ,
Seán Alexander Smith
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Edition: XII, 202 Pp. with 6 Maps ed.
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.463kg
ISBN: 9789004325166
ISBN 10: 9004325166
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 08 September 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The Frontiers of Mission ... will compel scholars to continue to break down barriers between subfields and further nuance the conversation concerning early modern missionary Catholicism that this collection has stimulated. Robert John Clines, Western Carolina University. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, Fasc. 170 (2016/II), pp. 556-558.
The Frontiers of Mission ... will compel scholars to continue to break down barriers between subfields and further nuance the conversation concerning early modern missionary Catholicism that this collection has stimulated. Robert John Clines, Western Carolina University. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, Fasc. 170 (2016/II), pp. 556-558.
Author Information
Alison Forrestal, Ph.D (2000), University of Manchester, is lecturer in History at National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). She is the author of Catholic Synods in Ireland, 1600-1690 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998), and Fathers, Pastors and Kings: Visions of Episcopacy in Seventeenth-Century France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004). Seán Alexander Smith, Ph.D. (2012), National University of Ireland, Galway, is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. His monograph Fealty and Fidelity: the Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736 was recently published (London: Routledge, 2015).
