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Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their particular ways of doing things around the world. However, missionary work, whether religious or secular, raises difficult questions about ends and means. What warrant do missionaries have for inducing others to act and
Winston, Kenneth I., Bane, Mary Jo
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Curiosités géographiques et missions jésuites en Asie du Sud-est dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle : La Descripsão do Reyno dos Laos, e dos circumvizinhos a ella

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2014
The present article contextualizes and examines a cartographic sketch of the kingdom of Laos and its neighbours, preserved in the Biblioteca do Palacio Real de Ajuda of Lisbon, in the manuscript Jesuitas na Asia, 49-V-32, fol.85.
Dejanirah Couto
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Connections between Japan and European Catholic world (late 16th - early 17th centuries)

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
The article describes the religious mission which was the first attempt to convey to Europeans the truth about Japan and to let the Japanese learn about the Christian world.
Y. L. Kuzhel
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Ignatian Obedience and Evangelization: Jesuit General Congregations and Hans Urs von Balthasar

open access: yesReligions
This article explores the relationship between Ignatian obedience and evangelization through the complementary perspectives of Hans Urs von Balthasar and recent Jesuit General Congregations. It argues that obedience, traditionally viewed as submission to
Endika Martínez
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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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La raza y la definición de la identidad del “Indio” en las fronteras de la América española Colonial

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Sociales, 2007
The following study examines the process of the creation of indio identity and status, at least on paper, that defined the role of the natives in colonial society, on three distinct mission frontiers on the fringes of Spanish America.
Robert H. Jackson
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The Guaycuros, Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries, and José Gálvez: The failure of Spanish policy in Baja California

open access: yesMemoria Americana, 2005
Between 1697 and 1767/1768, the Jesuits administrated missions in the arid Baja California Peninsula. Because of the limited potential for agriculture on the Peninsula, the Jesuits had to import food from neighboring provinces, and allowed a large part ...
Robert H. Jackson
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