The Eternal Presence of the Ancestors
This study aims to examinate religion as an instrument of cultural exchanges through Dominican missionary settings of China projected from the Hispanic Monarchy in order to know the perceptions of colonial societies. The main resource for this research is Domingo Fernández de Navarrete's chroni...
| Published in: | Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Morcelliana
2016
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2016, Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 756-788 |
| Further subjects: | B
Dominicans
B Filial Piety B domenicani B Missions B Ancestors B pietà filiale B antenati B Rito B China B Cina B Cultural relations B Fernandez Navarrete, Domingo, d. 1689 B History of Christian missions B Seventeenth Century |
| Summary: | This study aims to examinate religion as an instrument of cultural exchanges through Dominican missionary settings of China projected from the Hispanic Monarchy in order to know the perceptions of colonial societies. The main resource for this research is Domingo Fernández de Navarrete's chronicle entitled Tratados históricos, políticos, éticos y religiosos de la monarquía de China published in Madrid in 1676. In particular, filial piety, as known by Jesuit missioners was soon registered by the fathers who understood immediately the importance of this concept in Chinese society, its history and tradition. Xiao (. . . ), the Chinese term for filial piety, refers to the basic respect for one's parents, elders and ancestors, but is actually a complex virtue and the basis of all human relations in Chinese societies. The Dominican missionary gives us information about this concept and the correspondent responsibilities parents and sons have; also similarly in between relatives, members of a society and living and deaths. While parents were in charge of their children moral education, sons also had specific manners to show respect to their elders. The most important one was ancestor worship that required a concrete rituality. Navarrete's descriptions are a faithfully source of information of Chinese culture giving us the opportunity to know about those different values missionaries were force to coexist with. The study of filial piety helps us to understand Christianity in China with its own characteristics in which understanding and studying "the other" generated an internal debate and was part of the evangelization process. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
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