Author: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-14
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9004394877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.
Author: Carole Blackburn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780773527690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1632 Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune, newly arrived at the fort of Quebec, wrote the first of the Relations to his superior in Paris, initiating a series of biannual mission reports that came to be known as the Jesuit Relations. In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn presents a contemporary interpretation of the 1632-1650 Relations, arguing that they are colonizing texts in which the Jesuits use language, imagery, and forms of knowledge to legitimize relations of inequality with the Huron and Montagnais. By combining textual analysis with an ethnographic study of the Jesuits Blackburn is able to reveal the gap between the domineering language of the Relations and the limited authority that the Jesuits were able to exercise over Native people, who actively challenged much of what the Jesuits tried to do and say. She highlights the struggle between the Jesuits and Natives over the meaning of Christianity. The Jesuits' attempted to convey their Christian message through Native languages and cultural idioms. Blackburn shows that this resulted in the displacement of much of the content of the message and demonstrates that the Native people's acts of resistance took up and transformed aspects of the Jesuits' teachings in ways that subverted their authority.
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Publisher: London : Wiley and Putnam
Published: 1848
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles W. Polzer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780824020965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Ingraham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-07-13
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 3368173790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.