Chinese Atheism in the Mémoires de Trévoux: a Cultural Project against the Existence of a Perfect Atheism
In the first decades of the eighteenth century, the Society of Jesus was busy changing its interpretation of the Chinese world and denying the possible existence of a society of atheists. To safeguard the Chinese mission, the Jesuit Antonio Provana claimed that European cultural models could not be...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 416-438 |
IxTheo Classification: | BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism CD Christianity and Culture KBM Asia KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church NBC Doctrine of God RJ Mission; missiology |
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Chinese Rites Controversy
B Atheism B Enlightenment B China B Libertinism |
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