Translating catechisms, translating cultures
Subtitle: the expansion of Catholicism in the early modern world
By: edited by Antje Fluchter and Rouven Wirbser
Contributors: Flüchter, Antje, editor; Wirbser, Rouven, editor
Series: Studies in Christian Mission -- 52; Studies in Christian mission -- v. 52.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789004336001
Subjects: Congresses; History; Missions; Catechisms; Catholic Church
Description: Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures' explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities; the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translation in the context of several Jesuit missionary strategies. The volume challenges the often assumed paramount Europeanness of Western Christianity. In the early modern period the idea of Tridentine Catholicism was translated into many different regions where it was appropriated and adopted to local conditions. Missionary work always entails translation, linguistic as well as cultural, which results in a modification of the content. Catechisms were central instruments to communicate Christian belief and, therefore, they are central media for all kinds of translation processes. The comparative approach (including China, India, Japan, Ethiopia, Northern America and England) enables the evaluation of different factors like power relations, social differentiation, cultural patterns, gender roles etc.
Notes: "The present volume is the proceedings of the Conference "Comparing Catechisms - Entangling Christian History" (14-16 May 2014) organized by Antje Fluchter" --ECIP galley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.