[PDF] Introduction: Jesuit Missionary Perspectives and Strategies: Across the Early Modern Globe | Semantic Scholar

Jesuit missionaries who cultivated Catholic worship and belief across the early modern globe are increasingly a focus of interdisciplinary scholarly research. Due, in part, to spreading interest in Jesuit history per se far beyond the older, “in house” scholarship of the Society of Jesus, attention to Jesuit missionaries reflects, as well, increasing recognition across the humanities of the role of religion generally in shaping the modern world.1 Over the past several decades, a number of…