The 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).

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List of Frequently Used Abbreviations

List of Contributors



The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World: An Introduction

 Ines G. Županov and Pierre Antoine Fabre



Part 1: Chinese Rites and Jesuit Missions



1 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: From China to Rome

 Ronnie Po-chia Hsia



2 Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Role of Christian Communities

 Nicolas Standaert



3 Atheism: A Word Travelling To and Fro Between Europe and China

 Michela Catto



Part 2: Malabar Rites between Mission and History



4 Śivadharma or Bonifacio? Behind the Scenes of the Madurai Mission Controversy (1608–1619)

 Margherita Trento



5 Revisiting the Malabar Rites Controversy: A Paradigm of Ritual Dynamics in the Early Modern Catholic Missions of South India

 Gita Dharampal-Frick



Part 3: Mission and Inquisition



6 Rites and Inquisition: Ethnographies of Error in Portuguese India (1560–1625)

 Giuseppe Marcocci



7 Jesuits and Oriental Rites in the Documents of the Roman Inquisition

 Sabina Pavone



Part 4: Rites Controversies: Far and Near



8 Accommodationist Strategies on the Malabar Coast: Competition or Complementarity?

 Istvan Perczel



9 Orthodoxy and Politics: The Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the Prince Mihnea III Radu of Walachia and the Great Church of Constantinople

 Ovidiu Olar



Part 5: Idols, Idolatry and Catholic Mission



10 Writing Rites in the Borderlands: Appropriation, Mimesis and Interaction between Jesuits and Indians in Colonial South America

 Guillermo Wilde



11 “Secularizing” the Andes: The Effects of Transcultural Processes on Colonial Andean Rituals

 Claudia Brosseder



12 Dios, Dio, Viracocha, Tianzhu: “Finding” and “Translating” the Christian God in the Overseas Jesuit Missions (16th–18th Centuries)

 Ana Carolina Hosne



Epilogues: Rites Controversies as Cultural Resources



13 A Cross Concealed Among Flowers: Interpreting a Secret Ritual in Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Communities

 Pierre Antoine Fabre



14 Against Rites: Jesuit Accommodatio as Pietist Preparatio Evangelica in Eighteenth Century South India

 Ines G. Županov



Index