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Trading religious and daily goods : Franciscans in semi-rural Palestine
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Tramontana, Felicita (2019) Trading religious and daily goods : Franciscans in semi-rural Palestine. In: Amsler, Nadine and Badea, Andreea and Heyberger, Bernard and Windler, Christian, (eds.) Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization. Routledge. ISBN 9780367028817
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Abstract
This chapter discusses how patterns of interaction were influenced by the beginning of the missionary activity in the 1620s and influenced it in turn. Bethlehem is located eight kilometers south of Jerusalem; the village and the neighboring Bayt Jala were the most populous villages of the district, respectively numbering 287 and 239 households at the end of the fifteenth century. The friars’ investments are equally significant when considered in the light of their involvement in village life. Land was very important both for the sociopolitical life of the community and as a means of subsistence. The reconstruction of the friars’ entanglements with local Bethlehem society shows differences and similarities with other Catholic missions in Asia. The case of the Franciscans in Palestine sheds new light on the meaning of the term “localized actors” for missionaries. Mediterranean trade, leading the Catholic community to acquire not only economic power but also unprecedented social prestige.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Centre for the Study of the Renaissance | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Catholic Church -- Asia -- History, Catholics -- Palestine, Franciscans -- Missions, Missions -- Asia -- History, Acculturation -- Asia -- History | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780367028817 | ||||||
Book Title: | Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization | ||||||
Editor: | Amsler, Nadine and Badea, Andreea and Heyberger, Bernard and Windler, Christian | ||||||
Official Date: | 7 November 2019 | ||||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 May 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 May 2020 | ||||||
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