Dudink, Ad; Standaert, Nicolas

Confession in early modern Europe has been the subject of several studies. But what happened to the confessional practice when it moved to other cultures? This is the major research question of the present book as applied to late Ming and early Qing China.

Introduction; Us from Evil: Confession and Salvation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Chinese Catholicism; Buddhist chanhui and Christian Confession in Seventeenth-Century China; Illuminating the Shades of Sin: The Society of Jesus and Confession in Seventeenth-Century China; A Missionary Confessional Manual: Jose Monteiro's Vera et Unica Praxis breviter ediscendi, ac expeditissime loquendi Sinicum idioma; Bibliography, Index, Illustrations