RT Journal Article
T1 Sustainability in Early Modern China through the Evolution of the Jesuit Accommodation Method
A1 Rodríguez Cunil, Inmaculada
A1 Gutierrez Villarrubia, Miguel
A1 Salguero Andújar, Francisco Jesús
A1 Cabeza Laínez, Jose M.
AB This article clarifies the often overlooked facts attributed to European missionaries in Asia,especially Jesuits, who acted as catalysts of a kind of nuanced acculturation named Accommodatio(adaptation). To a great extent, they became harbingers of culture and science more than faith itselfto the dismay of many, including the Roman Church. Such cultural and scientific transferencewas actually two-pronged, for simultaneously they presented in Europe unique findings relatedto language, e.g., the Chinese characters (considered to be the sole natural language), geography,cosmology and even governance. Here we try to prove that such procedure contributed positively tothe modern scientific notions of sustainability and to provide the kind of accoutrements that modelthe modern world as we know it. However, in the process, many Jesuits clearly became sinified andeventually acculturated
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20939
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20939
LA eng
NO Rodriguez-Cunill, I., Gutierrez-Villarrubia, M., Salguero-Andujar, F., & Cabeza-Lainez, J. (2021). Sustainability in Early Modern China through the Evolution of the Jesuit Accommodation Method. In Sustainability (Vol. 13, Issue 21, p. 11729). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111729
NO Inmaculada Rodriguez Cunill desires to honor the artists Eva Guil Walls andMaro Infante. She would like to thank Yulu Yang for her accurate renditions. Miguel GutierrezVillarrubia would like to honor the rhapsode Jon Anderson. Francisco Salguero Andujar appreciatesthe kindness and help of Juhyung Lee and all the personnel at Seokguram. Joseph Cabeza Lainezdedicates this article to Francisca Lainez Robles
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026