Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World

Ines G. Županov, is director of the Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud in Paris. She has published monographs and articles on social and cultural history of the missions in South Asia and the Portuguese empire. Her latest book co-written with Ângela Barreto Xavier is Catholic Orientalism; Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge (16th-18th centuries) (Oxford University Press, 2015). Pierre Antoine Fabre, born in 1957, is directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales in Paris. He has published five books and more than 150 articles, and edited 30 books, including the most recent, The Acquaviva project : Claudio Acquaviva's generalate (1581-1615) and the emergence of modern Catholicism. (coedited with Flavio Rurale, Institute of Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Maps and IllustrationsList of Frequently Used AbbreviationsList of ContributorsThe Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World: An IntroductionInes G. Županov and Pierre Antoine Fabre Part 1: Chinese Rites and Jesuit Missions1 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: From China to RomeRonnie Po-chia Hsia2 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Role of Christian CommunitiesNicolas Standaert3 Atheism: A Word Travelling To and Fro Between Europe and ChinaMichela CattoPart 2: Malabar Rites between Mission and History4 Śivadharma or Bonifacio? Behind the Scenes of the Madurai Mission Controversy (1608–1619)Margherita Trento5 Revisiting the Malabar Rites Controversy: A Paradigm of Ritual Dynamics in the Early Modern Catholic Missions of South IndiaGita Dharampal-FrickPart 3: Mission and Inquisition6 Rites and Inquisition: Ethnographies of Error in Portuguese India (1560–1625)Giuseppe Marcocci7 Jesuits and Oriental Rites in the Documents of the Roman InquisitionSabina PavonePart 4: Rites Controversies: Far and Near8 Accommodationist Strategies on the Malabar Coast: Competition or Complementarity?Istvan Perczel9 Orthodoxy and Politics: The Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the Prince Mihnea III Radu of Walachia and the Great Church of ConstantinopleOvidiu OlarPart 5: Idols, Idolatry and Catholic Mission10 Writing Rites in the Borderlands: Appropriation, Mimesis and Interaction between Jesuits and Indians in Colonial South AmericaGuillermo Wilde11 “Secularizing” the Andes: The Effects of Transcultural Processes on Colonial Andean RitualsClaudia Brosseder12 Dios, Dio, Viracocha, Tianzhu: “Finding” and “Translating” the Christian God in the Overseas Jesuit Missions (16th–18th Centuries)Ana Carolina HosneEpilogues: Rites Controversies as Cultural Resources13 A Cross Concealed Among Flowers: Interpreting a Secret Ritual in Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian CommunitiesPierre Antoine Fabre14 Against Rites: Jesuit Accommodatio as Pietist Preparatio Evangelica in Eighteenth Century South IndiaInes G. ŽupanovIndex

"This collection of essays is a welcome contribution to the study of missionary and indigenous debates regarding non-Christian rites, precisely because this volume widens its purview to include the missionary enterprise beyond China. (...) Županov and Fabre have managed to solicitand inspire contributors who have produced a remarkably interrelated collection of chapters. (...) This volume is an important contribution to the dialogue between cultures, and between scholars of the past and present." - Anthony E. Clark, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, Journal of Jesuit Studies Volume 6 (2019), pp. 327-330.