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The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French,
Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in
the seventeenth century, c. 1610-1690. It shows that missions are
ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between
religion and politics in early modern Catholic and Calvinist
thought. The book aims to analyse the intellectual roots of
fundamental ideas in Catholic and Calvinist missionary
writings-among others idolatry, conversion, civility, and police-by
examining the classical, Augustinian, neo-thomist, reformed
Protestant, and contemporary European influences on their writings.
Missionaries' insistence on the necessity of reform, emphasising an
experiential, practical vision of Christianity, led them to
elaborate conversion strategies that encompassed not only
religious, but also political and social changes. It was at the
margins of empire that the essentials of Calvinist and Catholic
soteriologies and political thought could be enacted and
crystallised. By a careful analysis of these missiologies, the
study thus argues that missionaries' common strategies-habituation,
segregation, social and political regulations-stem from a shared
intellectual heritage, classical, humanist, and above all concerned
with the Erasmian ideal of a reformation of manners.
The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French,
Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in
the seventeenth century, c. 1610-1690. It shows that missions are
ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between
religion and politics in early modern Catholic and Calvinist
thought. The book aims to analyse the intellectual roots of
fundamental ideas in Catholic and Calvinist missionary
writings-among others idolatry, conversion, civility, and police-by
examining the classical, Augustinian, neo-thomist, reformed
Protestant, and contemporary European influences on their writings.
Missionaries' insistence on the necessity of reform, emphasising an
experiential, practical vision of Christianity, led them to
elaborate conversion strategies that encompassed not only
religious, but also political and social changes. It was at the
margins of empire that the essentials of Calvinist and Catholic
soteriologies and political thought could be enacted and
crystallised. By a careful analysis of these missiologies, the
study thus argues that missionaries' common strategies-habituation,
segregation, social and political regulations-stem from a shared
intellectual heritage, classical, humanist, and above all concerned
with the Erasmian ideal of a reformation of manners.
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