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Konversionen zum Katholizismus in der frühen Neuzeit : europäische und globale Perspektiven
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ISBN: 9783643139818 9783643339812 3643139810 Year: 2019 Publisher: Münster LIT


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The meaning of religious conversion in Africa : the case of the Igbo of Nigeria
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ISBN: 0566050307 Year: 1987 Publisher: Aldershot : Avebury,

Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity
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ISBN: 0415912733 0415912741 9780415912730 9780415912747 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Routledge,

In search of identity : debates on religious conversion in India
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ISBN: 0195663586 9780195663587 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Delhi: Oxford university press,


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Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617-1666), On the conversion of Indians and heathens : an anotated translation of De conversione Indorum et gentilium (1669)
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ISBN: 9789004255449 9004255443 9789004255456 9004255451 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Abstract

Exploration, trade and conquest expanded and upset traditional worldviews of early modern Europeans. Christians saw themselves confronted with a largely heathen world. In the wake of Iberian colonization, Jesuits successfully christianized heathen populations overseas. In his De conversione Indorum et gentilium , Johannes Hoornbeeck presents a systematic overview of every aspect of the missionary imperative from a Reformed Protestant perspective. The most attractive part of his book may be the global survey it offers of the various types of heathens, an early example of comparative religion. Of equal interest, however, is his critical approach to mission. Hoornbeeck rejects ecclesiastical hierarchy and top-down imposition of Christianity. In this he is perfectly orthodox, and at the same time startlingly original and a harbinger of modern missions. His practical recommendations offer a flexible framework for missionaries, to fit a wide variety of circumstances.

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