1. Home
2. Archive
3. 2016
4. №1(27), 2016
5. The Western man on the East: the development of the international communicative strategies in the early new times (OPEN ACCESS)

The Western man on the East: the development of the international communicative strategies in the early new times (OPEN ACCESS)

O.V. Volosuk, O.A. Nesterova, O.L. Solodkova

Abstract

The article studies Jesuits’ practice of the realization of international communication strategies in Asia end of 16th – beginning of 17th centuries. The strategies developed by Jesuits were aimed at strengthening of the influence of Western civilization on the East. The article deals with the specific soft formation of «West – East» inter cultural discussion in missionary activities promoted by Francis Xavier and Antoni de Montserrat under Oda Nobunaga’s rule in Japan and Akbar’s Mughal Empire.

Keywords

Mughal Empire; Francis Xavier; Antoni de Montserrat; Jesuits; catholic missionaries; strategies of influence; the perception of the ‘Other’; Jesuit missions in Asia

For citing:

Order this article