Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759

This article treats the familiar triad “Gold, God, and Glory” as a heuristic to track how commercial, missionary, and reputational aims were configure...

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Main Author: Fang, Boyu
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Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2025-09-20
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spelling Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
This article treats the familiar triad “Gold, God, and Glory” as a heuristic to track how commercial, missionary, and reputational aims were configure...
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Religions
Articles
2025-09-20
Francis Xavier, Saint
Gama family
Jesuit missions
Portuguese empire
religious agency
sacred-secular dynamics
Fang, Boyu
spellingShingle Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
Fang, Boyu
Francis Xavier, Saint
Gama family
Jesuit missions
Portuguese empire
religious agency
sacred-secular dynamics
title Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
title_autocomplete Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
title_full Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
title_fullStr Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
title_full_unstemmed Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
title_short Sacred Ambition, Secular Power: Jesuit Missions and the Rebalancing Authority of the Portuguese Empire, 1540–1759
title_sort sacred ambition, secular power: jesuit missions and the rebalancing authority of the portuguese empire, 1540–1759
topic Francis Xavier, Saint
Gama family
Jesuit missions
Portuguese empire
religious agency
sacred-secular dynamics
topic_autocomplete Francis Xavier, Saint
Gama family
Jesuit missions
Portuguese empire
religious agency
sacred-secular dynamics
topic_facet Francis Xavier, Saint
Gama family
Jesuit missions
Portuguese empire
religious agency
sacred-secular dynamics
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/9/1211