Missionaries in Persia (PDF)
Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid Empire, hosted Catholic missionaries of more diverse affiliations than most other cities in Asia. Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the missionaries acted as...
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid Empire, hosted Catholic missionaries of more diverse affiliations than most other cities in Asia. Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the missionaries acted as diplomatic agents for Catholic rulers, hosts to Protestant merchants, and healers of Armenians and Muslims. Through such niche activities they gained social acceptance locally. This book examines the activities of Discalced Carmelites and other missionaries, revealing the flexibility they demonstrated in dealing with cultural diversity, a common feature of missionary activity throughout emerging global Catholicism. While missions all over the world were central to the self-fashioning of the Counter-Reformation Church, clerics who set out to win over souls for the "true religion" turned into local actors who built reputations by defining their social roles in accordance with the expectations of their host society. Such practices fed controversies that were fought out in newly emerging public spaces. Responding to the threat this posed to its authority, the Roman Curia initiated a process of doctrinal disambiguation and centralization which culminated in the nineteenth century. Using the missions to Safavid Iran as a case study for "a global history on a small scale," the book creates a new paradigm for the study of global Catholicism.
Autoren-Porträt von Christian Windler
Christian Windler is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He specializes in the social and cultural history of diplomacy, religious practices, and global entanglements from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. His publications include La diplomatie comme expérience de l'Autre: Consuls français au Maghreb (1700-1840) (2002), a pioneering study in new diplomatic history. Since the early 2000s, he has broadened his interest in cultural intermediaries by focusing on missionaries as cultural brokers and "glocal" actors. He has been principal investigator on several externally funded projects in new diplomatic history and in the history of religious practices in Europe and beyond.
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- Autor: Christian Windler
- 2024, 408 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 0755649370
- ISBN-13: 9780755649372
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.01.2024
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