Envoys of a human God : the Jesuit mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632 /
In this book, Andreu Martínez offers an insightful study of the Jesuit mission to Christian Ethiopia. The work combines different approaches cultural-historical, political and sociological and draws from a multiplicity of sources, from archival research to archaeology.
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Boston :
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2015.
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| Series: | Jesuit studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures, Maps, Plates and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of Terms; Introduction; PART 1: From Diu to Faremona; 1: The Prester John's New Clothes; The Courting of the naguś; Dom João III: Religious Reform as Expansion; The Preste's New Clothes; 2: From Santiago to St. Paul; Evangelizing the Preste; Santiago's Last Call; Paul's Momentum; 3: Native Networks; The Carreira to the Preste; Diu and the Banyans; Massawa, Faremona and the Ethio-Portuguese.
- PART 2: From Faremona to Gorgora4: Mission Metrics; 1555-1603: Difficult Beginnings; 1603-1623: Setting up a Local Missionary Network; 1623-1632: The Catholic Patriarchate and the Expansion ofthe Network; 5: Mission Politics; The Redução of Christian Ethiopia; Observation, Deconstruction, and Replacement of EthiopianChristianity; Beyond Absolutism; 6: Mission Culture; The Presentation of Self in Missionary Life; A Theology of the Visible; Spaces of Faith, Spaces of Power; Mission Support; PART 3: From Gorgora to Goa; 7: Yätant; Utopian Ethiopia; The Mission of the Qwälläfä and Chalcedonians.
- From Dissent to Open Resistance8: Exile and Memory; The Mission after the Jesuits; Longing for Ethiopia; A Mission between Oblivion and Curiosity; 9: Conclusions; Appendix 1: Leading Political Figures in the Red Sea, India, and Europe, ca. 1600-1635; Appendix 2: National and Provincial Rulers in Christian Ethiopia,1603-1636; Appendix 3: Jesuit Missionaries in Ethiopia, 1555-1632; Appendix 4: Intellectual Production during the Mission, 1611-1632; Appendix 5: Genealogical Chart of the Extended Ethiopian Royal Family (ca. 1550-1640); Sources and bibliography; Index.