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Roman Catholic Church in Macau

Author : Source Wikipedia

Publisher : University-Press.org

Page : 58 pages

File Size : 11,30 MB

Release : 2013-09

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ISBN : 9781230652399

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Jesuit China missions, Macanese Roman Catholic bishops, Macanese Roman Catholics, Roman Catholic dioceses in Macau, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Giulio Alenio, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, Matteo Ricci, Alessandro Valignano, Ferdinand Verbiest, De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, Chinese Rites controversy, Micha Boym, St. Paul's College, Macao, Philippe Couplet, Jean-Baptiste Regis, Alexander de Rhodes, Nicolas Trigault, Michele Ruggieri, Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, Karel Slavi ek, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Joachim Bouvet, Jan Miko aj Smogulecki, Johann Grueber, Jean-Francois Gerbillon, Johann Schreck, Li Yingshi, Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau, Sabatino de Ursis, Ruins of St. Paul's, Antoine Thomas, Pierre Marie Heude, Alvaro Semedo, Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer, Charles Le Gobien, Michel Benoist, Robert Jacquinot de Besange, Giuseppe Castiglione, Carmelo Elorduy, Caspar Castner, Jean Denis Attiret, Lodovico Buglio, Domingos Lam, Manuel Dias, Antonio Ng, China and the Christian Impact, Thomas Pereira, Paul Chan Wai Chi, Jean-Francois Foucquet, Nicolo Longobardo, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Jose Lai, Joseph Henri Marie de Premare, Roman Catholicism in Macau. Excerpt: The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world. The missionary efforts and other work of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, between the 16th and 17th century played a significant role in continuing the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and the West, and had an impact on Christian culture in Chinese society today. The first attempt by the Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by St. Francis Xavier, Spanish priest and missionary and founding member of the Society of Jesus. Xavier never reached the mainland, dying after only a year on the Chinese island...



Catholics and Everyday Life in Macau

Author : Chen Hon-Fai

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 47,90 MB

Release : 2017-03-16

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1134739923

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Catholicism has had an important place in Macau since the earliest days of Portuguese colonization in the sixteenth century. This book, based on extensive original research including in-depth interviews, examines in detail the everyday life of Catholics in Macau at present. It outlines the tremendous societal pressures which Macau is currently undergoing – sovereignty handover and its consequences, the growth of casinos and tourism and the transformation of a serene and somewhat obscure colony into a vibrantly developing city. It shows how, although the formal structures of Catholicism no longer share in rule by the colonial power, and although formal religious observance is declining, nevertheless the personal piety and ethical religious outlook of individual Catholics continue to be strong, and have a huge, and possibly increasing, impact on public life through the application of personal religious ethics to issues of human rights and social justice and in the fields of education and social services.



Macao's Church of Saint Paul

Author : Cesar Guillen-Nuñez

Publisher : Hong Kong University Press

Page : 197 pages

File Size : 43,83 MB

Release : 2009-01-01

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 962209922X

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"Macao's Ruins of St. Paul (correct name Church of Madre de Deus) is the only example of Baroque art and architecture in China. This beautifully illustrated book explores anew the now vanished but once renowned Church, as well as the Jesuit university college of which it was part. Both Church and College were destroyed by fire in 1835. From the perspective of the history of art they have remained poorly explored. The author remedies this by imaginatively reconstructing their ground plans, architecture and decoration in the light of new information in original documents that he has found in archives and libraries in Europe and Macao. In his re-creation of the buildings, he illustrates and draws on the evidence of selected Jesuit buildings in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Portuguese India and considers the historical Counter-Reformation environment that eventually led to the College of Madre de Deus in China. The most recent art-historical findings on the Mannerist and Baroque art of the Jesuits in Europe and Iberian colonies are also taken into account. The author, who first identified the surviving façade of the Church as a retable-façadeƯƯƯƯ, an unusual type of Iberian and Latin American church façade resembling an altarpiece, brings his argument to its logical conclusion by relating it to the Church's plan and decoration. An extremely important aspect of the art promoted by the Jesuits, centring on the cult of passive martyrdom, is also candidly discussed. This book will enable the general public to better appreciate the Ruins and provides much of interest and value to scholars, students, architects, art museums and cultural organizations."--Publisher's website.



Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China

Author : Shun-hing Chan

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 47,23 MB

Release : 2021-04-06

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004459375

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This book examines the complex relationships of civil society and Christianity in Greater China. Different authors investigate to what extent Christians demonstrate the quality of civic virtues and reflect on the difficulties of applying civil society theories to Chinese societies.



Macau

Author : Christina Miu Bing Cheng

Publisher : Hong Kong University Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 38,99 MB

Release : 1999-06-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9622094864

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Macau, on the threshold of the twentieth-first century, is perhaps a harbinger of a new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply constrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic clashes. It is thus likened here to the Roman deity Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. By concentrating on the ambivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and the emergence of a creole minority - the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese, and Portuguese sources, she has provided a pathbreaking, multi-focal perspective of the last Portuguese outpost in Asia. In light of the 'decolonization' of Macau in December 1999, the author's analysis challenges the easy assumptions of the causal sequence: colonialism/postcolonialism, and opens up an interdisciplinary purview of a local instance in cross-cultural studies.



Setting Off from Macau

Author : Kaijian Tang

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 38,77 MB

Release : 2015-11-16

Category : History

ISBN : 9004305521

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It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no Macau. This book seeks to restore Macau to its proper place in the history of Catholicism and the Jesuit missions in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties by offering a unique insight into subjects ranging from the origins of Jesuit missionary work on the island to the history of Jesuit education and Catholic art and music on the Chinese mainland.



In the Wake of Basho

Author : Yury Lobo

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 19,45 MB

Release : 2016-12-30

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1524547476

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According to the author Yury Lobo this book just happened. After very intense submerging into Japanese culture, history, art and poetry one early morning the whole idea of the book came to him as one piece: to introduce Shakespeare to Japan at least two centuries before it actually happened. The idea (however as crazy as it may sound) is not quite too far away from reality: it could truly have happened that a Roman Catholic Japanese with initial traditional samurai background escaped to Christian Macao in 17th century, where he was introduced to English, which became in time his second mother tongue und through English was captured with the genius of Shakespeare. Of course Haruki Okami's core was still Japanese. Once a samurai, forever a samurai. The tiger doesn't change his stripes. His Basho and Shakespeare-influenced existential poetry is a sort of crossover or fusion of both languages, cultural, poetic and religious traditions of Japan and England. Hokku married with Shakespearean blank verse. Haruki Okami (the fictitious poet) was impressed by Shakespeare like French artists were impressed by Japanese art in the second half of the 19th century which brought impressionism to life. His impressionistic poetry is sort of extended minimalism with more attention to transient details. Important is the architecture of Haruki Okami's verse: 3 lines: long, shorter one and the shortest. It is sort of backward steps or stairway arranged sense wise in ascending order. The reader is kind of going downstairs but actually he is going up. The suspension is growing toward the climatic end and ends up with an ellipsis [...] inviting the reader to fill up the omitted words, connotations and meanings (the reader can find all this intended omissions in extensive Notes which covers a significant part of Japanese and English history, the animal world, religious symbols and traditions).







Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Author : J. Gordon Melton

Publisher : Infobase Publishing

Page : 657 pages

File Size : 12,45 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0816069832

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An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 600 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Protestantism.