教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

教學週次Course Week	彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week	彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 10 週 Week 10	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work
	第 18 週 Week 18	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

Readings and Topics

Week One

Wednesday, September 11^th – Introductory Lecture and Activities

 

Week Two

Wednesday, September 18^th – What is Reformation? Moving from Eurocentric to Global Historiographies

1. Hajo Holborn, History of Modern Germany, Volume 1: The Reformation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959)
2. Lucas Cranach, Passional Christi und Antichristi (1521)
3. Lucas Cranach, Stadtkirche Wittenberg Altarpiece (1547)
4. Anonymous, ‘Martin Luther and Jan Hus’ (2^nd half of the 16^th century)

 

Week Three

Wednesday, September 25^th – What is Reformation? Moving from Eurocentric to Global Historiographies

1. A.G. Dickens, The English Reformation (New York: Schocken Books, 1964)
2. Frontispiece of ‘The Great Bible’ (1539)
3. ‘The Candle is Lighted, We Cannot Blow it Out’ (1630s?)

 

Week Four

Wednesday, October 2^nd – What is Reformation? Moving from Eurocentric to Global Historiographies

1. John Bossy, ‘The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe’, Past and Present, vol. 47 (1970), p. 51-70
2. Johannes Cochlaeus, ‘Luther as a Seven-Headed Monster’ (1529)

 

Week Five

Wednesday, October 9^th – What is Reformation? Moving from Eurocentric to Global Historiographies

1. Nicholas Terpstra, Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
2. Carina Johnson, Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans
3. Dionysius of Cologne, on the Anabaptist kingdom at Munster (1535)
4. Martin Luther, ‘Lord, Keep us Steadfast in Your Word’ (1542)

 

Friday, October 11^th – Outline for historiography paper due

 

Week Six

Wednesday, October 16^th – Launching the Global Catholic Reformation

1. Luke Clossey, Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

 

Week Seven

Monday, October 21^st – Final draft of historiography paper due

 

Wednesday, October 23^rd – Catholicism and Colonialism: The Case of the Americas

1. Osvaldo F. Pardo, The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
2. Ryan Dominic Crewe, The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
3. Primary source appendices from Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523-1700 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018)

 

Week Eight

Wednesday, October 30^th – Competing Christianities: Catholic Reformation in African Christian Societies

1. Andreu Martínez d’Alós-Moner, Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015)
2. The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman, ed. Wendy L. Belcher (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)

 

Week Nine

Wednesday, November 6^th – Competing Christianities: Catholic Reformation in African Christian Societies  

1. John Thornton, The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
2. Cecile Fromont, ‘By the Sword and the Cross: Power and Faith in the Arts of the Christian Kongo’, in

Kongo Across the Waters, ed. Susan Cooksey, et al (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013)

3. Selections from The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History, ed. Malin Newitt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

 

Week Ten

Monday, November 11^th – Outline for research paper due

 

Wednesday, November 13^th – No class (Professor at conference)

 

Week Eleven

Wednesday, November 20^th – Catholicism in East Asia: Confluence, Coexistence, and Conflict

1. Introductory material from R. Po-chia Hsia, Matteo Ricci and the Catholic Mission to China, 1583-1610: A Short History with Documents (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2016)
2. Matteo Ricci, The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603)

 

Friday, November 22^nd – Final draft of research paper due

 

Week Twelve

Wednesday, November 27^th – Catholicism in East Asia: Confluence, Coexistence, and Conflict

1. Nadine Amsler, Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018)

 

Start on final project

 

Week Thirteen

Wednesday, December 4^th – Catholicism in East Asia: Confluence, Coexistence, and Conflict

1. Richard Bowring, In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early Modern Japan, 1582-1860

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)

2. Shusaku Endo, Silence (New York: Picador Classics, 2016)

 

Thursday, December 5^th – Scaffolding Assignment #1 due for final project

 

Week Fourteen

Wednesday, December 11^th – The Protestant Reformation and Religious Toleration in the ‘New World’

1. Chris Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

 

Week Fifteen

Wednesday, December 18^th – Protestantism and the Invention of Race in the Atlantic World

1. Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

 

Thursday, December 19^th – Scaffolding Assignment #2 due for final project

 

Week Sixteen

Wednesday, December 25^th – Protestantism and the Invention of Race in the Atlantic World

1. Edward Andrews, Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World

(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)

 

Week Seventeen

Wednesday, January 1^st – ‘The Reformation’ in Comparative Perspective

1. Merry Weisner-Hanks, ‘Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective, 1500-1750’, in The Oxford Handbook of The Protestant Reformations, ed. Ulinka Rublack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

 

Week Eighteen

Wednesday, January 8^th – Flexible learning week

 

Friday, January 10^th – Final project due