Abstract:
"Home altars have long been a part of many religious traditions. In each culture, the home altar offers an important sanctuary, providing a sacred space for prayers and meditation, often accompanied by distinct rituals. This private, personal, yet communal space is non-hierarchical, relational, and very often taken care of by women. This study explores how Catholic women perceive and practice their faith within their households in Macau. I argue that domestic religious practices allow women to reconstruct ethnic and religious identities, creating sacred spaces that help them navigate social change while at the same time serving as a powerful means of evangelizing. This dissertation explores the relationship among women, mission, and spirituality examined through domestic devotional practices. By interviewing twenty-one women from three major Catholic ethnic groups in Macau -- Chinese, Filipino and Macanese -- we learn how their altar-making and veneration creates hope and trust and see how the altar acts as a spiritual oasis personally and communally.

Women’s roles are not only confined to their homes; they can contribute meaningfully both to society and the church through their participation in the most diverse professional disciplines and ecclesial leadership roles. Yet the home remains a source of creative power, providing the inspiration and strength for women to bring forth their mission to the wider community. Through the narratives of our interviewees from this study, we see how home altar veneration and their related devotional practices act as vehicles for women’s missioning. Women’s special sensitivity and empathy for others promote and nourish the growth and development of the whole human person -- for themselves, for their families, and for those who work with them. Their participatory and personally-oriented approach is the unique gift that women bring to the Church in Asia."

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Alternate title: Xingxue xingmi 性學醒迷.
Preface by Yin Fan 殷藩.
See under Chen Xun 陳薰 online at: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database)

1. Jingjiao beisong jie 景教碑頌解 -- 2. Tian Ru heyi lun 天儒合一論 -- 3. Tiantang zhenfu lun 天堂真福論 -- 4. Xingcha dizui lun 省察滌罪論 -- 5. Xiushen qike lun 修身七克論 -- 6. Aijin shisi lun 哀矜十四論 -- 7. Shizi shenghao lun 十字聖號論 -- 8. Ling shengti shengtian lun 領聖體升天論 -- 9. Aomen ji 澳門記.

Cover illustration: Bibliotheque National de France. Courant 7043.
Keywords: Nestorian stele, Confucian-Christian synthesis, Heaven and Hell, mourning,The Cross, ascension, Macau.
明末淸初耶稣会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第44册.

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Nouveau fonds 2948.
Contents: 1. Jingjiao beisong jie 景教碑頌解 -- 2. Tian Ru heyi lun 天儒合一論 -- 3. Tiantang zhenfu lun 天堂真福論 -- 4. Xingcha dizui lun 省察滌罪論 -- 5. Xiushen qike lun 修身七克論 -- 6. Aijin shisi lun 哀矜十四論 -- 7. Shizi shenghao lun 十字聖號論 -- 8. Ling shengti shengtian lun 領聖體升天論 -- 9. Aomen ji 澳門記.

Keywords: Nestorian stele, Confucian-Christian synthesis, Heaven and Hell, mourning,The Cross, ascension, Macau.

Online at Gallica.
Dig.pdf. local access [KaitianBaoyue.pdf]

1 Introduction 1 -- 2 An Anomaly in Colonization and Decolonization 9 -- The Age of Discovery 9 -- The Encounter of Two Civilizations 17 -- Problematic Sovereignty and Colonial Ideology 22 -- The Assertion of 'Perpetual Occupation' 26 -- Opium-Trafficking and Slave Trade 30 -- A Poetic Desire for Decolonization 33 -- Anachronistic Decolonization and a 'Pre-Postcolonial' Era 35 -- A Resurgent Symbol: The Bank of China Building 38 -- An Unprecedented Nostalgia 39 -- A Punctum in History 41 -- 3 'City of the Name of God of Macau in China, There is -- None More Loyal' 47 -- The Toponymy of Macau 47 -- The Propagation of Christianity 50 -- The Partition of the World 53 -- Rites Controversy 54 -- Ancestor Worship and Chinese Reactions to Christianity 62 -- Christianity, Gunboats and Cannons 66 -- Autonomization of the Chinese Church 73 -- An Oasis of Catholicism 74 -- 4 The Rendezvous of a Virgin Trio 81 -- Religious Culture in Macau 81 -- The Facade of the Church of the Mother of God 83 -- Ma Zu Ge or the Temple of the Goddess of the Sea 100 -- Guan Yin Tang or the Temple of the Goddess of Mercy 116 -- Two 'Civilizing' Forces 121 -- 5 Colonial Stereotypes, Transgressive Punishment and Cultural -- Anthropophagy 127 -- The 'Twain' Meet 127 -- Western Literary Stereotypes of Macau 129 -- The Evocation of the Child/Mistress Imagery 142 -- The Punishment of the Western Intruder 144 -- Cannibalism, Carnivalism and the Mastication of the Barbarian Other 146 -- The Intrigue of Miscegenation and the Manipulation of -- Chinese Myths 149 -- The Monkey King's Ordeal 152 -- The Ultimate Victor 155 -- Satiric Elements and a Return to the Centre 156 -- A Field of 'Wheat' and 'Weeds' 157 -- 6 Midway Sojourners, Macanese Moments and Stoical Settlers 161 -- The River and the Sea 161 -- City of Threshold and Exile 163 -- Peninsular Affectivity 169 -- A Flaneur's Amor 173 -- A Macanese Dilemma 177 -- A Bohemian's Adventure 180 -- City of Anchorage and Endurance 182 -- A Return from Exile 190 -- Rootlessness and Rootedness 192 -- 7 Conclusion 197.

Contents: Introduction -- The Imaginary City - Departures; 1 -- Two Worlds - Origins: Portugal and China; 2 -- Boundaries - On the Periphery; 3 -- Memories - The Architecture of History; 4 -- Transitions - Crossing the Threshold; 5 -- Moments - The Culture of Everyday Life; 6 -- Images - Spiritual Topography; Conclusion -- Illusions - Epilogue

Jesuits in the eastern world as ‘forerunners of globalization’ / Carlota Miranda Urbano -- Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer / M. Antoni J. Üçerler 余安道 -- With a view towards Japan: Alessandro Valignano and the opening of the college in Macau / John Witek 魏若望 (1933-2010) -- The Japanese in the College of Macau (1595-1614) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa -- Alessandro Valignano 范禮安 Fan Li-an (1539-1606): strategist of the Jesuit mission in China / Edward J. Malatesta 馬愛德 (1932-1998) -- Chronology of Alessandro Valignano / Marisa Di Russo.

Religion and culture : an international symposium commemorating the fourth centenary of the University College of St. Paul, Macau, 28 November to 1 December 1994 / editor, John J. Witek ; co-ordinator, Michel Reis.
Includes bibliographical references.
Conference sponsored by the Instituto Cultural de Macau and the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco.

Papers:
The antecedents and context of the University College of St. Paul / Bejamim Videira Pires -- St. Paul's University College: academy of religion and culture / Edward J. Malatesta -- With a view towards Japan: Alessandro Valignano and the opening of the college in Macau / John W. Witek; commentary: Juan Gil --The missions of Portuguese typography in the south of China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Manuel Cadafaz de Matos -- Father Duarte de Sande, S.J., genuine author of De Missione Legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam Curiam...Dialogus / Américo da Costa Ramalho; commentary: Mark K. Chang -- The influence of the Chinese pharmacopeia in the prescriptions of the Jesuit dispensaries / Ana Maria Amaro -- A study on Wu Yushan's poetry of Celestial Learning / Zhang Wenqin; commentary: Beatriz Basto da Silva -- The Church of the College of Madre de Deus / Gonçalo Couceiro; commentary: César Guillén-Nuñez -- A conjectural reconstruction of the Church of the College of Mater Dei / Fernando António Baptista Pereira; commentary: César Guillén-Nuñez -- The first university in Macau: the Colégio de São Paolo / Huang Qichen; commentary: Fei Chengkang -- The College of St. Paul of Macau and the church of Japan / Diego Yuuki; commentary: Sanji Yamaoka -- Korean Catholics as seen from Macau, 1566-1784 / Juan Ruiz de Medina; commentary: Albert Chan -- Services provided to the residents of Macau by St. Paul's College / António Lopes; commentary: Juan Ruiz de Medina -- The concept of China in sixteenth-century Europe and how it evolved: textual comparison of the works of Gaspar da Cruz and González de Mendoza / Hino Hiroshi -- The true significance of the College of St. Paul / Aloysius B. Chang.
Added keywords: Medicine, pharmacy, prescriptions -- printing technology -- Japan mission -- Wu Li 吳歷, 1632-1718 -- Tianxue 天學 -- Korean Catholic Church -- 16th century European views of China.

Setting off from Macau :  essays on Jesuit history during the Ming and Qing dynasties / by Tang Kaijian.

Translated from the Chinese.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-298) and index.

Origins and development of Catholicism in Macau during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Macau and the spread of Catholicism in mainland China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Japanese Christians in Macau and the Guangdong government's response -- The rise and fall of Catholicism in Hainan during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Funding Jesuit missionary work in China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Catholic art in Macau and mainland China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Catholic music in Macau and mainland China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Jesuit clock diplomacy and the use of western clocks during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no Macau. This book seeks to restore Macau to its proper place in the history of Catholicism and the Jesuit missions in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties by offering a unique insight into subjects ranging from the origins of Jesuit missionary work on the island to the history of Jesuit education and Catholic art and music on the Chinese mainland.-- Provided by Publisher.

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Link to BC Libraries edition