Far from being naive and credulous observers, the first Jesuit missionaries to New France (1611-1650) were sceptical and rationalistic in their analyses of nature and natural forms of life. Despite the rhetoric of spiritual conquest found in the Jesuit Relations, and a theological focus on the sinfulness of all nature including the human, missionary curiosity extended beyond the narrowly religious. As a group, Jesuit missionaries were remarkably empirically minded when investigating native spirituality and when testing claims about the supernatural. They thus demonstrate affinity with the emerging culture of scientific reason in early modern Europe.Loin d'être des observateurs naïfs et crédules, les premiers Jésuites de Nouvelle-France (161...
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This thesis identifies in the Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France (Relations), written bet...
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This thesis is focussed on how the Society of Jesus constructed and disseminated representations of ...
This essay situates the French Jesuit missionary Joseph-François Lafitau’s (1681–1746) ‘discovery’ o...
Which part was played by science in the French “civilizing mission” ? From the 1880s, the interests ...
Vita.The object of this research has been to determine the willingness of the seventeenth century Fr...
Expansion and exploration of foreign territories such as the New World and the Far East by Europeans...
This contribution compares the atttitude of curiosity in two Christian missions that operated from t...
Despite voluminous research concerning French society during the eighteenth century the scientific p...
While Thwaites' Jesuit Relations have been extensively used by historians interested in the interact...
The Montagnais kin groups which entered the Canadian mission at Sillery in 1639 throw signrficant li...
Le XVIIe siècle est l’étape déterminante d’un changement de perspective qui remplace une vision reli...
In the eighteenth century, huge numbers of coureurs de bois, illegal French fur traders, selectively...
International audienceIn the course of their evangelization travels, Western missionaries contribute...
This thesis identifies in the Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France (Relations), written bet...
The history of the Jesuit sciences was till that last quarter of the twentieth century a neglected f...
The role of missionaries from the Society of Jesus was to travel the world to convert people to Cat...
This thesis is focussed on how the Society of Jesus constructed and disseminated representations of ...
This essay situates the French Jesuit missionary Joseph-François Lafitau’s (1681–1746) ‘discovery’ o...
Which part was played by science in the French “civilizing mission” ? From the 1880s, the interests ...