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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Main Author: Catto, Michela 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: 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
Further subjects:B Chinese Rites Controversy
B Atheism
B Enlightenment
B China
B Libertinism
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