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Salvation and globalization in the early Jesuit missions

Clossey shows how the vast distances separating Jesuit missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of the Society as a tightly centralized military machine. In fact, connections unmediated by Rome sprung up between the missions throughout the 17th century

Print Book, English, 2010, ©2008
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010, ©2008