...This chapter describes the introduction of Christianity in Taiwan. The first contact of Taiwan with Christianity was in the context of Jesuit missions, when the yearly nao from Macao to Japan was shipwrecked in northern Taiwan in 1582. The 300 persons on board had to stay in Taiwan from 16 July...

...This article examines how music, corporality, and memory were intertwined in the Jesuit missions of South America during the colonial period. More specifically, it considers how European music was imposed upon indigenous peoples whereas traditional indigenous musical traditions were censured...

... undermined the potential of his scientific work. Still, this was a time for making new connections, of trying new things, including a journey to the former Jesuit missions. In December 1821, Bonpland's life took on a new direction as he was dragged into confinement in Paraguay. Banks Joseph Sir...

... Rebolledo Luis de Cecilia Virgin of the Assumption belly dancing religious tourism amulet Guaraní Jesuit missions death bone relics Myth 1 In the remote Esteros de Iberá, about 150 years ago, there lived a shaman who was famous for healing. He also cared for lepers who were abandoned in a prison...

...This chapter investigates the impact of political and economic conditions on the forms and functions of music and dance within mission communities in New Spain during the period from 1680 to 1767. It analyzes the use of music in the Jesuit missions of Baja California, Nueva Vizcaya, and Sonora...

... the former Jesuit missions of Rio Grande do Sul and the grasslands of southeastern Corrientes. In his first year of freedom, his correspondents were almost wholly American, testimony to the immediate challenges of subsistence. Soon after, began a flurry of correspondence with European intellectuals, mainly...

... Jesuit mission site, in Durango, Mexico. It begins with the examination of the written sources, dating from 1617 to the eighteenth century, within their historical contexts. These sources are compared to one another and to the appearance of the sculpture today, as disclosed during a recent minor...

..., “ ‘Fighting Against a Hydra’: Jesuit Language Policy in Moxos,” in Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective of Jesuit Mission History, ed. Shinzo Kawamura and Cyril Veliath (Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 2009), 352. 19. For the Guaraní instance see Bartomeu Melià, La lengua guaraní...

... Caesaropapism Joachim Patriarch Kiev Likhoudes Ioannikios Likhoudes Sophronios Moscow Dositheos of Jerusalem filioque Greek printing press Jesuit missions Orthodox ecumenicity Ottoman Empire Peter the Great Uniatism The ambivalence of Orthodoxy's attitude to the West is reflected in the contrasting...

... of Persons and Edmund Campion to England in 1580–1581. Letters usefully place this endeavour within the context of global Jesuit missions. The documents show the elitism of the Jesuits, preoccupied above all with the conversion of the gentry. The chapter then considers a number of considerable challenges...

..., and Things Well Worthy to Be Known’: Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Natural Histories of Paraquaria and Río de la Plata.” Science in Context 21 ( 2008 ): 39–72. Asúa, Miguel de.   Science in the Vanished Arcadia. Knowledge of Nature in the Jesuit Missions...

... French that might sound stilted to modern ears, this book offers free translations that provide the substance of the Relations in an idiom immediately accessible to 21st-century readers of English. An introduction sets out the basic history of the Jesuit missions in New France...

... strategy” in Japan (where the priests dressed in silk in preference to cotton and thus identified themselves with the social elite, who were able to assist in the spread of Christianity), and Jesuit missions to China. The last part of the chapter looks at Protestant missions from the late eighteenth...