Jesuit Missions in Portuguese America in the sixteenth century: Gentile conversion strategies

 

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Author: Santos, Fernanda
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2016
Description:In Portuguese America, one of the main active religious orders was the Society of Jesus. With the main goal of evangelizing the indigenous in the new Brazilian lands, the Ignatian Order mustered up several conversion strategies, building settlements, colleges and seminaries. Through various letters between the center (Rome) and the peripheries of missionary work, the Order sought to also ensure their survival as their religious project. Thus, it was established, over time remained in brazilian soil, as the right arm of the portuguese Empire. To build this project, the gentile was framed in theological-christian logic, looking for his conversion wich presented great difficulties to the Jesuits. Thus, the Company sought to form a new man, a christian man.
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/25021
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/25021
Keyword:Society of Jesus
evangelization
conversion
gentile
portuguese Empire
Companhia de Jesus
missionação
conversão
gentio
Império português