Susangeline Y. Patrick is Professor of World Christianity at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. She is also a faculty member at NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University, USA.

Susangeline Patrick’s scholarly breadth is on full display in this book. Art as contextualization, art as spiritual battleground, art as power, devotion, and didactic tool. She masterfully weaves together the history of five religious orders and four continents. Patrick’s attention to the visual culture of Asian women, Protestants, and the mendicant orders fills a lacuna in the scholarship. A concise, evocative, and stimulating text. Highly recommended.

• Introduction: Art, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern China and Taiwan One: Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: The Jesuits and Chinese Catholic ArtTwo: Poverty and Suffering: Franciscans and ArtThree: Simplicity and Piety: Augustinians and ArtFour: Our Lady of the Rosary: Dominicans and ArtFive: Harmonizing the World: The Poor Clares and ArtSix: Asian Catholics, Their Art, and Visual Culture Seven: Catholic Visual Culture, Art, and Public PietyEight: Protestant Visual Culture in Early Modern TaiwanConclusion: Art, Power, and ReligionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

Susangeline Y. Patrick is Professor of World Christianity at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. She is also a faculty member at NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University, USA.

Susangeline Patrick’s scholarly breadth is on full display in this book. Art as contextualization, art as spiritual battleground, art as power, devotion, and didactic tool. She masterfully weaves together the history of five religious orders and four continents. Patrick’s attention to the visual culture of Asian women, Protestants, and the mendicant orders fills a lacuna in the scholarship. A concise, evocative, and stimulating text. Highly recommended.

• Introduction: Art, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern China and Taiwan One: Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: The Jesuits and Chinese Catholic ArtTwo: Poverty and Suffering: Franciscans and ArtThree: Simplicity and Piety: Augustinians and ArtFour: Our Lady of the Rosary: Dominicans and ArtFive: Harmonizing the World: The Poor Clares and ArtSix: Asian Catholics, Their Art, and Visual Culture Seven: Catholic Visual Culture, Art, and Public PietyEight: Protestant Visual Culture in Early Modern TaiwanConclusion: Art, Power, and ReligionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

Susangeline Y. Patrick is Professor of World Christianity at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. She is also a faculty member at NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University, USA.

Susangeline Patrick’s scholarly breadth is on full display in this book. Art as contextualization, art as spiritual battleground, art as power, devotion, and didactic tool. She masterfully weaves together the history of five religious orders and four continents. Patrick’s attention to the visual culture of Asian women, Protestants, and the mendicant orders fills a lacuna in the scholarship. A concise, evocative, and stimulating text. Highly recommended.

• Introduction: Art, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern China and Taiwan One: Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: The Jesuits and Chinese Catholic ArtTwo: Poverty and Suffering: Franciscans and ArtThree: Simplicity and Piety: Augustinians and ArtFour: Our Lady of the Rosary: Dominicans and ArtFive: Harmonizing the World: The Poor Clares and ArtSix: Asian Catholics, Their Art, and Visual Culture Seven: Catholic Visual Culture, Art, and Public PietyEight: Protestant Visual Culture in Early Modern TaiwanConclusion: Art, Power, and ReligionAppendicesBibliographyIndex