Environmental factors in urban planning

Kagan, Alfred

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“…103 The Jesuits organised Guåhan into a republic by reducing it to five assigned districts or parishes-St. Ignatius of Hagåtña, St. Rose of Hågat, Humåtac, Pågu, and Inalåhan (or St. Anthony of Fina)-that separated civilisation from barbarism, "the world of the polis from the world of the beasts." 104 Using presidio funds to transform the island of Guåhan into a model Spanish mission, the military officers founded congregations, parishes, and schools to advance the Christianization of the islanders. 105 As a result, the municipality of St. Ignatius of Hagåtña attained a certain size and importance as a "perfect community" ( perfecta communitas), in Thomas Aquinas's words, to successfully evangelise the Northern Mariana Islands (Gani).…”

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Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions in the Spanish Empire

Rosa

2023

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This article examines two different missionary areas where the Society of Jesus was sent to evangelise the native population: the Andean territories previously under Inca domination and the remote Mariana Islands in the Pacific Rim. The gathering of “other barbarians” living outside “civilised” societies was a tool of early modern colonisers within Europe and beyond. The English did so in sixteenth-century Ireland and the Spanish began reducing the so-called American Indians to new settlements in New Spain and Peru. In this paper, I want to compare the methods used to concentrate the natives of the Viceroyalty of Peru, where the Jesuits actively collaborated, with the borderland mission of the Marianas, where the Jesuits worked as parishioners of a much less sophisticated people: the CHamoru.1 As I will demonstrate, this policy of gathering souls was not an isolated one, but part and parcel of a universalistic principle of spreading God's word that was irremediably embedded in colonial structures of coercion and political control in the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

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Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions in the Spanish Empire

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Environmental factors in urban planning

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