TY  - BOOK
AU  - Imbruglia,Girolamo
TI  - The Jesuit missions of Paraguay and a cultural history of Utopia (1568-1789)
T2  - Studies in Christian mission,
SN  - 9789004350601
AV  - BV2853.P2 
U1  - 266/.2892 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Missions
KW  - History
KW  - Paraguay
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Utopias
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction -- Europeans and Religious Orders in America -- The Society of Jesus: Missionaries and Missions -- The Missions and Public Opinion in the Crisis of European Conscience: Utopias and Republicanism -- Montesquieu, Republican Utopia and Civilisation -- The Age of the Encyclopédie and Rousseau: New Paths and New Needs to Rethink Utopianism -- 1750s–1770s: Political and Social Conflicts -- Utopias and Human Sciences: Diderot’s Analysis of Society -- Beyond the Lumières -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789) explores the religious foundations of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, and the discussion of the missionary experience in the public opinion of early modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot. This book presents a wealth of documentation to highlight three key aspects of this debate: the relationship between civilisation and religion, between religion and political imagination, and between utopia and history. Girolamo Imbruglia's analysis of the Jesuits' own narrative reveals that the idea and the practice of mission have been one of the essential features of the European identity, and of the shaping modern political thought
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004350601
ER  -