Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His latest edited volume is Entangled Empires: Anglo-Iberian Atlantic Worlds 1500–1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).Robert Maryks has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including, most recently, the edited volume Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa (Brill, 2018). R.P. Hsia is Edwin Erle Sparks professor of history and Asian studies at Penn State University. Among his most recent edited books is A Companion to Early Modern Catholic Global Missions (Brill, 2018).

"The reader interested in Jesuit missions will gain a new perspective on how these missions were perceived over time and by different religious entities. Most any reader will learn from these erudite essays or at the very least be able to use them as helpful reference and bibliographic tools for much needed further research not only of Jesuit missions but those of other orders as well."Thomas J. Santa Maria (Yale) in The Sixteenth Century Journal “The essays in this collection complicate the narrative of animosity, often drawing attention to contexts where cooperation or inheritance were the more compelling markers of Jesuit-Protestant interactions.” Andrew T. Kaiser, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (2020), pp. 653–654.

• IFiguresIntroduction: Protestantism and Early JesuitsRobert Aleksander MaryksPart 1: Asia1 Introduction Ronnie Po-chia Hsia2 We are Not Jesuits: Reassessing Relations between Protestantism, French Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus in Late Tokugawa to Early Shōwa Japan Makoto Harris Takao3 Kirishitan Veneration of the Saints: Jesuit and Dutch Witnesses Haruko Nawata Ward4 Jesuit and Protestant Use of Vernacular Chinese in Accommodation Policy Sophie Ling-chia Wei5 Shaping the Anthropological Context of the “Salus populi Sinensis” Madonna Icon in Xian, China Hui-Hung Chen6 Jesuit and Protestant Encounters in Jiangnan: Contest and Cooperation in China’s Lower Yangzi RegionSteven Pieragastini7 Protestant and Jesuit Encounters in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Délio Mendonça8 Beyond Words: Missionary Grammars and the Construction of Language in Tamil Country Michelle ZaleskiPart 2: The Americas9 Introduction: Jesuit Liminal Space in Liberal Protestant Modernity Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra10 José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit–Protestant Author: Print Culture, Contingency, and Deliberate Silence in the Making of the Canon Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra11 Negotiating the Confessional Divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: The Case of Manoel de Morães Anne B. McGinness12 A French Jesuit Parish, without the Jesuits: Grand Bay’s Catholic Community and Institutional Durability in British Dominica Steve Lenik13 “Tis nothing but French Poison, all of it”: Jesuit and Calvinist Missions on the New World Frontier Catherine Ballériaux14 “Americans, you are marked for their prey!” Jesuits and the Nineteenth-century Nativist Impulse Robert Emmett Curran15 Wars of Words: Catholic and Protestant Jesuitism in Nineteenth-century America Steven Mailloux