Author: Ribeiro, António Vitor

Dreams, visions and a Taoist-Christian Saint in the ceventeenth-century Jesuit records of the China Mission. [AHSI vol. lxxxviii, fasc. 175 (2019-I)]
Date2019
Publish_locationRomae
PublisherArchivum Historicum Societatis Iesu
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeExtract (PDF)
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberBF1074.R52 2019d
Descriptionpdf. [p.103-133 (32 p.)]
NoteDreams, visions and a Taoist-Christian Saint in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit records of the China Mission / António Vitor Ribeiro.
Extract from: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu vol. lxxxviii, fasc. 175 (2019-I)
Includes bibliographical references (p.131-133)

Summary:
The interpretation of dreams has always been an important feature of Chinese culture, both learned and popular. This article aims to analyse how Jesuit missionaries in China approached this issue. In theory, missionaries from the Society of Jesus had their own oneirology, inherited from Aristotle, and some of them, such as Francesco Sambiasi and Giulio Aleni, wrote on the matter. However, Jesuit records show that this subject was far from unanimously treated within the Society. Jesuit archives in the Biblioteca da Ajuda (Lisbon) contain several accounts of dreams of Chinese converts, as well as some comments from missionaries on the subject.
This article also contains a case-study of dream accounts and visions of a Chinese convert whose biography was written by Jacques Motel SJ (1616–92).
Summary also in Portuguese.

Local access dig.pdf. [Ribeiro-Dreams.pdf]

SubjectCatholic converts--China--Biography Chinese Christians--17th century--Biography Christianity and other religions--Daoism Dreams--Religious aspects--Catholic Church Fortune-telling by dreams--China Motel, Jacques 穆迪我, 1619-1692