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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Jesuit Missionaries"”.
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Confucians confront Catholicism in eighteenth-century Korea
… books written in Chinese decades earlier by Jesuit missionaries in China. Those first Korean Catholics accepted Matteo Ricci's argument that Catholicism and Confucianism were compatible. The majority of their contemporaries did not agree. The result was a confrontation that brought disgrace …
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Pera saberem pronunciar o que acharem escrito: ler quimbundo, língua estrangeira, no século XVII
The Society of Jesus had to supply its missionaries in Angola and Brazil with materials in Kimbundu. The earliest known book in Kimbundu (and Portuguese) is "Gentio de Angola sufficientemente instruido nos mysterios de nossa sancta Fé", a catechism written by the Jesuit Fathers Francesco Pacconio …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… Asia—was experienced first-hand by several Jesuit missionaries proselytising in China. During the unstable interregnum, Jesuits sought patronage from disparate warring factions, offering their astronomical expertise to help various pretenders secure the “Mandate of Heaven” to rule …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… of Confucius and Confucianism propounded by the Jesuit missionaries in China during the period of the old mission, from its inception c. 158O to its collapse after the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism was rooted in the Jesuit missionary …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… of Confucius and Confucianism propounded by the Jesuit missionaries in China during the period of the old mission, from its inception c. 158O to its collapse after the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism was rooted in the Jesuit missionary …
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Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing
… is the "third wave" of contact initiated by the Jesuit missionaries in the second half of the sixteenth century that developed into a multi-faceted communication and interaction between the Catholic side of Europe and the late imperial China. As many scholars have demonstrated, the histories of …