Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization

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Introduction: Localizing Catholic missions in Asia
PART I Missionaries at princely courts
	1	Between convent and court life: Missionaries in Isfahan and New Julfa
	2	“The habit that hides the monk”: Missionary fashion strategies in late imperial Chinese society and court culture
	3	Between Mogor and Salsete: Rodolfo Acquaviva’s error
PART II Missionaries in cities
	4	Urban residences and rural missions: Patronage and Catholic evangelization in late imperial China
	5	The post-Tridentine parish system in the port city of Nagasaki
	6	Conflicting views: Catholic missionaries in Ottoman cities between accommodation and Latinization
PART III Missionaries in the countryside
	7	Funding the mission: The Jesuits’ economic integration in the Japanese countryside
	8	Trading in spiritual and earthly goods: Franciscans in semi-rural Palestine
	9	Rural Tibet in the early modern missions
PART IV Missionaries and households
	10	Holy households: Jesuits, women, and domestic Catholicism in China
	11	Women, households, and the transformation of Christianity into the Kirishitan religion
	12	Missionaries and women: Domestic Catholicism in the Middle East
Afterwords
	History as the art of the “other” and the art of “in-betweenness”
	Localizing Catholic missions in Asia: Framework conditions, scope for action, and social spaces
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index