Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures ─ The Expansion of Catholicism in the Early Modern World

Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities, the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translations in the context of several Jesuit missions (including China, India, Japan, Ethiopia, Northern America and England).

Antje Fluchter, Ph.D. (2002), Bielefeld University, is Professor for Early Modern History at that university. She has published several works and articles on early modern global history, the history of the confessional age, the history of knowledge and gender history.Rouven Wirbser, M.A. (2014) is PhD student at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology at Bielefeld University. In his PhD project he researches the activities of the Jesuit order in the German region of Westphalia.