Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas
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- Book
- Year:
- 2019
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Place published:
- Leiden
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- Abstract:
This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to "change hearts"--that is, convert or reform--both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art, and architecture; it inflamed young men with holy desire to die for their faith in foreign lands; its missionaries initiated dialogue with and "accommodated" to non-European cultural and emotional regimes. The early modern Jesuits conducted, in all senses of the word, much of the emotional energy of their times. As such, they provide a compelling focus for research into the links between rhetoric and emotion, performance and devotion, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
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- Number of Pages:
- 328
- ISBN:
- 9789004329331
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