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A sign of great penitence : food, fasting and the dilemmas of evangelization in Early Modern Chinese and Japanese missions

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F23%3A73623448" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/23:73623448 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/37725" target="_blank" >https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/37725</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/Rel2023-2-6" target="_blank" >10.5817/Rel2023-2-6</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    A sign of great penitence : food, fasting and the dilemmas of evangelization in Early Modern Chinese and Japanese missions

  • Original language description

    Since their very first entry into the Ming empire (Jesuits 1580s, Franciscans 1630s), Christian missionaries produced an extensive body of testimonies on this exotic and unknown territory, in which they described Chinese history, philosophy, nature, culture, religions, society, and people, including Chinese food, culinary practices, and habits. This extensive corpus of missionary documents not only discussed &quot;things Chinese&quot; but also interpreted this unknown country for their European readers in a process our current scholarship has deemed as &quot;transcultural translation&quot;, during which the foreign culture is explained using familiar European terms. In my article, I focus on one particular aspect of food intake, or rather its voluntary absence: the practices of ecclesiastical fasting. I analyse how the first Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries understood fasting in the particular context of Chinese and Japanese culture and, more importantly, what obstacles and dilemmas they had to face in establishing it in their missionary work. I then relate these doubts and questions to contemporary missionary casuistry and moral theology. Finally, I explore ecclesiastical fasting as a compelling symbol of Christianity&apos;s encounter with the alien spiritual and cultural idioms of China (and Japan). I argue that it exemplifies the nature of the inter-cultural and inter-religious confrontation, displaying the inevitable difficulties inherent in rendering the Christian message. As far as the methodology is concerned, I explore some central assumptions of transculturality, transcultural translation, and Otherness, though I also point out the potential flaws and deficiencies of these perspectives when applied to this textual material. However, I do not aim at establishing an unambiguous methodology for dealing with these sources; my intention is rather to emphasize the absence of a reliable methodological approach for Early Modern missionary documents.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Religio

  • ISSN

    1210-3640

  • e-ISSN

    2336-4475

  • Volume of the periodical

    31

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    24

  • Pages from-to

    307-330

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85184916175