Le Sacre du Jésuite ou le Huron transcendé
When the Jesuits first arrived in Canada, their Chinese experience was fresh in their minds, and there could be no question of too close an acculturation, even though this idea seems recently again to have come into fashion. With the Europeans holding to their essentally hierarchical concept of reli...
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| Published in: | Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society Vol. 22; pp. 73 - 90 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | French |
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Michigan State University Press
01-01-1998
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | When the Jesuits first arrived in Canada, their Chinese experience was fresh in their minds, and there could be no question of too close an acculturation, even though this idea seems recently again to have come into fashion. With the Europeans holding to their essentally hierarchical concept of religion, there ensued a conflict between two widely differing notions of the sacred. This conflict ensured the failure of the missionary endeavor, for the Indian peoples could never accept the basically hierarchical concept that the Jesuits could not abandon. |
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| ISSN: | 0362-7055 |