{"product_id":"missionaries-in-persia-cultural-diversity-and-competing-norms-in-global-catholicism-paperback","title":"Missionaries in Persia: Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Windler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open access title explores how in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid Empire, hosted Catholic missionaries of more diverse affiliations than most other cities in Asia\u003c\/b\u003e. Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the missionaries acted as diplomatic agents for Catholic rulers, hosts to Protestant merchants, and healers of Armenians and Muslims. Through such niche activities they gained social acceptance locally. This book examines the activities of Discalced Carmelites and other missionaries, revealing the flexibility they demonstrated in dealing with cultural diversity, a common feature of missionary activity throughout emerging global Catholicism. While missions all over the world were central to the self-fashioning of the Counter-Reformation Church, clerics who set out to win over souls for the \"true religion\" turned into local actors who built reputations by defining their social roles in accordance with the expectations of their host society. Such practices fed controversies that were fought out in newly emerging public spaces. Responding to the threat this posed to its authority, the Roman Curia initiated a process of doctrinal disambiguation and centralization which culminated in the nineteenth century. Using the missions to Safavid Iran as a case study for \"a global history on a small scale,\" the book creates a new paradigm for the study of global Catholicism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Department of Early Modern History of the Institute of History, Universitaet Bern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Windler \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He specializes in the social and cultural history of diplomacy, religious practices, and global entanglements from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. His publications include \u003ci\u003eLa diplomatie comme expérience de l'Autre: Consuls français au Maghreb (1700-1840)\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), a pioneering study in new diplomatic history.Since the early 2000s, he has broadened his interest in cultural intermediaries by focusing on missionaries as cultural brokers and \"glocal\" actors.He has been principal investigator on several externally funded projects in new diplomatic history and in the history of religious practices in Europe and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42740248903776,"sku":"9780755649402","price":93.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/XK5MbBv-vL9780755649402.webp?v=1778086424","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/missionaries-in-persia-cultural-diversity-and-competing-norms-in-global-catholicism-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}