{"id":5250,"date":"2019-08-14T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5250"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:06:18","slug":"august-2019-new-publications-on-early-modern-jesuit-missions-in-india-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5250","title":{"rendered":"August 2019: New Publications on Early Modern Jesuit Missions in India and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jesuit Historical Institute (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu \u2013 IHSI) in Rome has published two new titles on the early modern Jesuit missions in India and Japan. Both titles are available for purchase via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/arsi\/en\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/arsi\/en\/publications\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/arsi\/en\/publications\/ihsi\/testing-ground-for-jesuit-accommodation-in-early-modern-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India: Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th\u201317th Centuries<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em> is authored by\u00a0Antony Mecherry, SJ. According to IHSI, Mecherry &#8220;explores the underlying dynamics of the accommodation experiments led by Francisco Ros SJ (1559\u20131624)\u2014a Catalonian from the Jesuit province of Arag\u00f3n\u2014in the cultural and religious terrain of Malabar, in particular, among the region\u2019s Christian communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later missionary work in India, such as that of Roberto de Nobili, is only understood by first examining these earlier efforts by Ros. &#8220;Most importantly,&#8221; IHSI continues, <em>Testing Ground<\/em> &#8220;underscores the Jesuit mission in early modern India as the crucial meeting point of some of the most prominent promoters of accommodation in the first century of the Society of Jesus,&#8221; such as Alessandro Valignano and Matteo Ricci.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IHSI has also published an edited volume by Giuseppe Marino:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/arsi\/en\/publications\/ihsi\/cronicas-desde-las-indias-orientales-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Cr\u00f3nicas desde las Indias Orientales: Segunda parte da Hist\u00f3ria Eclesi\u00e1stica de Jap\u00e3o y otros escritos por Jo\u00e3o Rodrigues &#8220;Ts\u00fbzu&#8221; SJ (c.1561-1633)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Rodrigues \u201cTs\u00fbzu\u201d was a Portuguese Jesuit missioned to Japan, where he was known among the Japanese as &#8220;the Interpreter.&#8221; Rodrigues was also &#8220;one of the most important witnesses of the so-called &#8216;Christian century&#8217; in Japan,&#8221; according to IHSI. This publication offers part of a text Rodrigues wrote while in exile in Macao.<\/p>\n<p>IHSI explains how Marino&#8217;s publication provides &#8220;an important account of the early history of Christianity in Asia and the first Jesuit efforts to Christianize Japan in the mid-sixteenth century under the leadership of Francis Xavier.&#8221; The book also publishes other letters and works by Rodrigues. Marino offers an introduction in Spanish but also an preface in English. All 28 chapters of the text &#8212; and the accompanying papers &#8212; are also summarized in English.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jesuit Historical Institute (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu \u2013 IHSI) in Rome has published two new titles on the early modern Jesuit missions in India and Japan. Both titles are available for purchase via:\u00a0http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/arsi\/en\/publications\/ &nbsp; Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India: Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th\u201317th Centuries) is authored by\u00a0Antony Mecherry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5254,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5250","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5250\/revisions\/5256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}