Regulating the Forbidden: Local Rules and Debates on the Missionary Economy in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay (17th–18th Centuries)

Fabian Fechner

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Local Rules and Debates on the Missionary Economy in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay (17th–18th Centuries)

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Page Range:: 269–287

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444195_012

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Economic activities of religious orders were often a hidden necessity, but could end up being considered a “scandal.” Economic sustenance was continuously debated––within the framework encompassing and mobilizing the concepts ranging from the profane to the sacred––at various institutional levels of religious orders. The case of the South American Jesuit provinces (1568–1767) reveals the way they discussed economic matters whilst often showing subtle semantic differences between what was to be permitted or forbidden. A characteristic structure of these debates is the interplay of collective decision-making processes and the well-known top-down principle of Jesuit government.

The inner dynamics of collective decision-making processes cannot be gleaned and understood from the printed Constitutions, the ultimate normative document for the Jesuits, and other printed Jesuit decrees and rulings, which are generally the only sources taken into consideration when looking into legislative questions concerning the Jesuits. Instead, little known and until now neglected local manuscript rules reveal internal debates on economic topics such as the slave trade, production and distribution of goods, debates on just pricing, and financial services to non-Jesuit and lay merchants. The decision-making far away from the Roman headquarters had been in fact quite autonomous. When the Curia’s voice from the Jesuit headquarters in Rome emitted its opinions and decisions, it was mostly ad hoc and unhelpful for the local decision-makers.

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Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries)

丛编： Studies in Christian Mission, 卷： 57

ISBN:: 9789004444195

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 26 Nov 2020

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Chapter 11 Regulating the Forbidden

Local Rules and Debates on the Missionary Economy in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay (17th–18th Centuries)

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