Book Review: The Jesuit Mission to New France: A New Interpretation in the Light of the Earlier Jesuit Experience in Japan

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The Jesuit Mission to New France: A New Interpretation in the Light of the Earlier Jesuit Experience in Japan . By Takao Abé . Leiden : Brill , 2011. vii + 234 pp. $140.00 cloth.

Book Reviews and Notes

There is a global turn afoot in the study of Jesuit missions. Coinciding with the publication of Luke Clossey's book Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions (New York: Cambridge University, 2011) and on the heals of Liam Matthew Brockey's Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2009), Takao Abé compares the Iberian missions of Japan and Paraguay with the French missions of North America in his book The Jesuit Mission to New France: A New Interpretation in the Light of the Earlier Jesuit Experience in Japan. The result is an international perspective that accounts for the methodologies and ideologies that connected Jesuit missions throughout the world, with only partial recognition of how missionaries adapted this shared Jesuit worldview to the peculiar circumstances...