@inbook{94e0ab79aeb046b3ac8f869b4e634743,
title = "{"}Provincializing Europe{"}: the circulation of the sacred and reciprocity in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion",
abstract = "This chapter tells the story of the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion in terms that seek to do justice to both the creative agency of the receivers - the missionised - as well as that of the missionaries. It borrow its main title from the work of the Indian scholar, Dipesch Chakravarty who polemicised against the marginalisation of non European history. I argue that one must grapple with the twin themes of reciprocity of influence/agency and the portability of relics if one is to understand how Roman Catholicism became the first world religion. It also contends that in the effort to convert the indigenous peoples of the New World, the Old world came to know itself in new ways by seeing 'the I in Thou'. The chapter also goes on to consider the uniqueness of Christianity as a translated religion. It conscludes by using the case study of the global cults of St Ursula and her 11,000 virgins and of the catacomb saints to make the point that this enabled Roman Catholicism to become the first world religion with global reach, if not grasp.",
keywords = "world religion - sculpture - circulation of sacred - relics - agency - reciprocity",
author = "Ditchfield, {Simon Richard}",
note = "Edited by Kasper von Greyerz and Anselm Schubert",
year = "2022",
month = nov,
day = "23",
language = "English",
volume = "221",
series = "Verein fur Reformationsgeschichte",
publisher = "Verein fur Reformationsgeschichte",
pages = "177--206",
editor = "{von Greyerz}, Kaspar and Anselm Schubert",
booktitle = "Reformation und Reformationen / Reformation and Reformations Kontinuit{\"a}ten, Identit{\"a}ten, Narrative / Continuities, Identities and Narratives",
edition = "1st",
}