Estudar o impacte do Cristianismo na China: confrontos por analogias versus saber ver
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2008
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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
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O nosso propósito é reflectir objectivamente sobre a questão da identidade e da diferença entre a China e o Cristianismo, tomando como ponto de partida a obra de Jacques Gernet “Chine et Christianisme”. Ao analisar o confronto e o conhecimento a que a cultura europeia e a cultura chinesa foram sujeitas, nos sécs. XVI-XVIII, tentaremos de analisar a origem do equívoco de base que nos leva, ainda na nossa era, a não perceber a fundo o mundo chinês. Para este efeito, pretendo analisar a experiência histórica da missionação na China, protagonizada pela Companhia de Jesus, no intuito de evidenciar como a procura das semelhanças nos leva por vezes a criar malentendidos e a construir falsas identidades. Podemos afirmar com alguma segurança que, apesar de vivermos num mundo cada vez mais globalizante, estas circunstâncias permanecem identificáveis e perceptíveis,e que os equívocos e fricções culturais entre o Ocidente e o Oriente não pertencem apenas ao passado, fazendo parte integrante da presente conjuntura mundial.
Our aim is to reflect objectively on the question of identity and of the difference between China and Christianity, taking the work of Jacques Gernet “Chine et Christianisme” for our starting point. On analysing the comparison and the knowledge to which both European and Chinese culture were subjected in the XVI-XVIII centuries, we shall attempt to analyse the origin of the underlying misunderstanding which has resulted, even in our own day, in a failure to recognise the true basis of Chinese culture. In order to achieve this, I propose to analyse the historical experience of missionary work in China, spearheaded by the Company of Jesus, with the aim of showing how the search for similarities in fact causes us, at times, to create misunderstandings and to construct false identities. We can state with some assurance that, in spite of the fact that we live in an increasingly globalised world, these circumstances remain identifiable and perceptible, and that the misunderstandings and cultural clashes between the West and the East do not belong to the past but remain part of the present world order.
Our aim is to reflect objectively on the question of identity and of the difference between China and Christianity, taking the work of Jacques Gernet “Chine et Christianisme” for our starting point. On analysing the comparison and the knowledge to which both European and Chinese culture were subjected in the XVI-XVIII centuries, we shall attempt to analyse the origin of the underlying misunderstanding which has resulted, even in our own day, in a failure to recognise the true basis of Chinese culture. In order to achieve this, I propose to analyse the historical experience of missionary work in China, spearheaded by the Company of Jesus, with the aim of showing how the search for similarities in fact causes us, at times, to create misunderstandings and to construct false identities. We can state with some assurance that, in spite of the fact that we live in an increasingly globalised world, these circumstances remain identifiable and perceptible, and that the misunderstandings and cultural clashes between the West and the East do not belong to the past but remain part of the present world order.
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Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
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RELIGIÃO, RELIGION, HISTÓRIA DAS RELIGIÕES, HISTORY OF RELIGIONS, MISSIONAÇÃO, MISSIONARY WORK, CRISTIANISMO, RELIGIÃO CATÓLICA, HISTÓRIA DO CRISTIANISMO, CHRISTIANISM, CATHOLIC RELIGION, HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY, CHINA, CHINA