“This dissertation suggests the new knowledge to be won by approaching the Jesuit missions as a macrohistorical phenomenon. Its first half, using the concept of local religion as a foil, develops the idea of "global religion" and suggests why the Jesuits' mentality can only be understood in a world-spanning context. Global religion also served to give legitimacy to a developing world church, to fuel (and to be fueled by) the Jesuit world missionary project.”—OCLC note.

Available to USF community via ProQuest.
Local access dig.pdf. [Clossey-Distant souls.pdf]

近世印刷史とイエズス会系「絵入り本」= The History of Early Modern Printing and Jesuit Illustrated Books / 編者〕浅見 雅一 .
Title and table of contents also in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:
Asami Masakazu. Preface: The Jesuit missionary enterprise and the printing of illustrated books.

Part I: Jesuits and Books.
M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J. Missionary printing in Asia and the Americas in the age of exploration. -- Asami Masakazu. Martyrdom records and the lives of saints during Japan’s “Christian Century”: from Europe to Japan. -- Lee Won Soon. The introduction of Western books translated into Chinese by Jesuit missionaries to Korea and their influence.

Part II: Illustrated books.
Kawamura Shinzo, S.J. A comparison of illustrated devotional books printed in Japan with their original European editions. -- José Miguel Pinto dos Santos. Illustrations in the early editions of Marcos Jorge’s Christian Doctrine. -- Asami Masakazu. António Francisco Cardim, S.J. and his illustrated record of Japanese martyrdom (1646): a study of the martyrs’ portraits. -- Maeda Nobuhito. The First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (c.1535-ca.1615) -- Asami Masakazu & Ahn Jung Won. The portrait of Candida Xu in The Life of the Noble Lady Candida Xu (1688) by Philippe Couplet, S.J.

Part III: Institutes and Research Trends.
Wu Xiaoxin. Legacies, efforts and resources: the Ricci Institute and its efforts to promote cross-cultural understanding through the study of Christianity in China. --Ahn Jung Won. The history of the Korean Catholic Church and the Research Foundation of Korean Church History. -- Ueno Daisuke. Buddhist illustrated books in the Edo period.

Includes bibliographical references.
平成21～25年度 文部科学省私立大学戦略的研究基盤形成支援事業「15～17世紀における絵入り本の世界的比較研究の基盤形成」報告書.

Der Neue Welt-Bott was a Jesuit missionary periodical written in German and based on the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses. Beginning with translations of French letters, it later became the first serialized publication of German language Jesuit reports from missions worldwide, although today it is best known for its China-related content. Published between 1726-1758 (1761 if missing numbers are included) in 4,500 pages including images, maps, cultural commentary.

For a full description with detailed index of contents, authors, and correspondence, see: Claudia von Collani, "Der Neue Welt-Bott: a preliminary survey" in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XXV (2003) pp. 16-43.

For links to individual numbers see the aggregate page on Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0.

Digital editions also available at HathiTrust and at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf.

The first volume (8 parts) of the German Jesuit relations, 1642-1726, chiefly from Asia & America, based in part on the French Lettres Edifiantes, in part on the original manuscript reports of the German & other Missionaries; one of the important pieces of German Americana, including, e.g., a map of California & New Mexico; large old bookplate of Joh. Ernst Graf von Kueffstein, engraved by Nicolai, Vienna.--OCLC record.