TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Leonardo
TI  - The Early Modern Jesuit Attitude towards Hindu and Ethiopian Strains of Asceticism
T2  - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024
SN  - 9789004538566
AV  - BL625 
U1  - 204.47 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - Religious education
KW  - Study and teaching
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The book presents an early modern Jesuit attitude towards Hindu and Ethiopian strains of asceticism. The Jesuits’ descriptions of both the yogis and the Ethiopian renunciates were marked by ambivalence. While critical of these ascetics, the missionaries also pointed out admirable facets of their comportment. In both the Society of Jesus’ positive and negative impressions, there are also glaring ethnocentric views that shift the spotlight onto the other’s flaws. Like many historical cases, these perceptions evolved into a sort of inverted mirror image of the self that revealed differences between the European Catholic and the native renunciate
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004538566
ER  -