Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries)

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Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries)

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Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, École Française de Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte des Historischen Instituts der Universität Bern
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Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, École Française de Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma
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Rom
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Italy
Vom - Bis
30.05.2017 - 01.06.2017
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Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom

Catholic missionaries who worked in Asia during the 17th and 18th centuries defy our understanding of agents of the Roman Church in important ways. Rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion, they often showed a striking openness to local ways of life. Many of them forged lasting bonds of friendship with non-Catholics even if there was little hope for the latter's conversion. As a consequence, although those who actually did go native by even forsaking their missionary vocation were few, missionaries' integration into social, political, economic, and scientific networks usually made them highly localized protagonists.

This conference attempts to compare missionaries' roles as local agents in different social environments across the Asian continent. We aim at testing the hypothesis that, no matter whether in the Middle East or South Asia, missionaries' options for action in localities under non-Christian authorities were strongly defined by the respective communicative setting: The local alliances forged by missionaries living in bustling urban hubs differed from those created by missionaries placed in less densely populated rural areas; missionaries living in a court setting in close proximity to a non-Christian prince often assumed different roles than their confreres staying in non-governing cities or in a rural setting. Also, the (non-princely) household formed a distinct arena of missionary activities which can be examined as a communicative setting on its own. We contend that, while communicative settings could greatly vary even within comparably small geographical distances, similarities between household, rural, urban, and court settings might be found across the Asian continent so that missionaries found structurally similar situations in as different parts of the world as Safavid Persia and Qing China.

The panels of the conference will be organized according to different communicative settings—household, rural, urban, court—rather than geographical regions. They will explore the distinctive options for action these settings provided to the missionaries. Furthermore, they aim at clarifying whether structurally similar settings in different regions of the Asian continent prompted missionaries to assume similar social roles.

Programm

Tuesday, 30 May, 14.45–18.50
Ecole Française de Rome

14.45
Catherine Virlouvet - Director of the EFR
Welcome

14.55
Nadine Amsler - Bern, Andreea Badea - Roma, Bernard Heyberger - Paris, Christian Windler - Bern
Introduction

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I - Urban Settings
Chair: Bernard Heyberger - Paris

15.30
Noël Golvers - Leuven
Jesuit Missionaries in the Peking Court City (17th-18th Centuries): Between Proselytism and Acculturation

16.00
Coffee Break

16.30
Paolo Aranha - München
Questioning Binary Oppositions: The Augustinians in 17th–18th Century Bengal

17.00
Cesare Santus - Roma
Conflicting Views: The Local Practices of Catholic Missionaries in the Urban Settings of the Ottoman Empire

17.30
Comment: Markus Friedrich - Hamburg

Wednesday, 31 May, 9.30–18.30
Istituto Svizzero di Roma

9.30
Joëlle Comé - Director of the ISR
Welcome

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II - Court Settings
Chair: Nadine Amsler - Bern

9.40
Eugenio Menegon - Boston
The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary Fashion Strategies at the
Imperial Court in Early Modern China

10.10
Uroš Zver - San Domenico di Fiesole
Missionary Courting in Agra and Nanchang: Jesuit Mirrors for Emperor
Jahangir and Prince Jian'an Wang (建安王)

10.40
Coffee Break

11.10
Margherita Trento - Chicago
At the Court of God: Tamil Poetry and Courtly Aspirations in the Life of
Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi (1680–1747)

11.40
Christian Windler - Bern
Between Convent and Court Life: Missionaries in Isfahan and New Djulfa

12.10
Comment: Ronnie Po-chia Hsia - University Park

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III - Household Settings
Chair: Christian Windler - Bern

15.00
Bernard Heyberger - Paris
Missionaries and Women: Domestic Catholicism in the Near East

15.30
Nadine Amsler - Bern
Holy Households: Jesuits, Women and Domestic Catholicism in China

16.00
Coffee Break

16.30
Haruko Nawata Ward - Decatur/Georgia
Transforming Christianity into Kirishitan Religion: Translation Workshops of Jesuits and Women in Japanese Households

17.00
Comment: Nicolas Standaert - Leuven

Thursday, 1 June, 9.30–17.00
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom

9.30
Martin Baumeister - Director of the DHI Roma
Welcome

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IV - Rural Settings
Chair: Andreea Badea - Roma

9.40
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia - University Park
Urban Residences and Rural Missions: Patterns of Catholic Evangelization in Late Imperial China

10.10
Hélène Vu Thanh - Lorient
Funding the Mission: The Jesuits' Insertion in the Economy of the Japanese Countryside

10.40
Coffee Break

11.10
Ines Županov - Paris
Between Mogor and Salsete: Rodolfo Acquaviva's Error

11.40
Felicita Tramontana - Warwick
A Peculiar Case of Rural Mission: The Franciscan Minors in the Villages of the Jerusalem District (17th Century)

12.10
Comment: Birgit Emich - Frankfurt am Main

15.00
Round Table and Final Discussion

Charlotte de Castelnau l'Estoile - Paris
Sabina Pavone - Macerata
Antonella Romano - Paris

Kontakt

Andreea Badea

Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
via Aurelia Antica, 391, I-00165 Rom

badea@dhi-roma.it

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