Luke Clossey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4588177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Clossey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Clossey |
| SIGNATURE | CLOSSEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8920-7387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Is Early Modern History
Relevance of Things Past
History of Global Christianity, Vol. I
Teaching and Learning Guide for “The Unbelieved and Historians, Parts I and II”
This teaching and learning guide accompanies the series of “The Unbelieved and Historians” articles, which argues that we should approach religious history with open minds. This guide offers related resources, readings, and a project designed for classroom use
The Unbelieved and Historians, Part II
Taking a cue from their less‐than‐marginal place in scholarship today, we call supernatural beings the “Unbelieved” and the explicit or implicit denial of them “Dogmatic Secularism.” We argue that objective historians should not discount, in advance, evidence that points to the existence or involvement of the Unbelieved in history; instead, we should cultivate a sceptical attitude towards all sources. In this, the second half of a two‐part essay,…
The Global Renaissance
The so-called global turn in the writing of history today involves increased interest not only in the rest of the world, but also in the global context of what used to be seen as European movements, such as the Renaissance, which was a fifteenth-to sixteenth-century movement to revive the culture of classical antiquity, Greek and Roman. We focus on the relation of the European Renaissance to the wider world to position the Renaissance in the cont…
The unbelieved and historians, part III
The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of the Unbelieved and in its knowability. Space limitations prevented our following the rich avenues of further inquiry our extraordinary peer reviewers suggested, but we remain grateful, especially for their remin…
The Geographies and Methodologies of Religion in the Journal of Early Modern History
Looking at historiography and methodology for the risks of Eurocentrism and presentism, this essay reflects on the study of the history of religion in the two decades of the Journal of Early Modern History ’s life to date. It first counts the locations of the subjects of the Journal ’s articles, both generally and specifically on religion, to measure patterns in geographical focus. Considering the language these articles use to describe religion,…
The Unbelieved and Historians, Part I
In 1855, Thakur led a rebellion of the tribal Santals against the British in eastern India. Some historians refused to admit Thakur's involvement in the event because of a three‐century‐old prejudice against giving supernatural beings agency when we write history. In Provincializing Europe , Dipesh Chakrabarty argues that historians must “anthropologize” such beliefs rather than take them seriously. Taking a cue from their less‐than‐marginal plac…
Response and reflection by the author
Jesuit on the Roof of the World
Jesuit on the Roof of the World by Trent Pomplun is the first major treatment of the mission to Tibet undertaken by the Tuscan Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733), one of the earliest European students of that land and its peoples. Since World War II, only Italians have paid much attention to Desideri in his own right; in English-language scholarship, he has appeared primarily in Tibetan Studies. Enzo Bargiacchi's recent studies of Desideri are brief a…
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions
This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey shows how the vast distances separating missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of t…
Exploring Periodization in the Classroom
The idea of an ‘early‐modern world’ has come into common use despite historians’ lack of enthusiasm for it as a concept. Possible implications of teleology, eurocentrism, and artificial homogenization not unfairly discourage professional confidence in it. The article describes an undergraduate seminar that takes advantage of the professional uncertainty about early modernity. As they move through a series of thematically organized readings, parti…
Merchants, migrants, missionaries, and globalization in the early-modern Pacific
In 1571 the founding of Manila made possible regular transpacific trade and thus forged the missing link in the global trade network. American interest in China and Japan soared to new heights. In the next two centuries this attraction fuelled other globalizing exchanges—parallel to the commercial ties—across the Pacific. Thousands crossed the ocean to create the America’s first Asian diaspora communities, and Mexico became Europe’s clearinghouse…
Merchants, migrants, missionaries, and globalization in the early-modern Pacific
In 1571 the founding of Manila made possible regular transpacific trade and thus forged the missing link in the global trade network. American interest in China and Japan soared to new heights. In the next two centuries this attraction fuelled other globalizing exchanges—parallel to the commercial ties—across the Pacific. Thousands crossed the ocean to create the America’s first Asian diaspora communities, and Mexico became Europe’s clearinghouse…
The Unbelieved and Historians, Part I
In 1855, Thakur led a rebellion of the tribal Santals against the British in eastern India. Some historians refused to admit Thakur's involvement in the event because of a three‐century‐old prejudice against giving supernatural beings agency when we write history. In Provincializing Europe , Dipesh Chakrabarty argues that historians must “anthropologize” such beliefs rather than take them seriously. Taking a cue from their less‐than‐marginal plac…
The Global Renaissance
The so-called global turn in the writing of history today involves increased interest not only in the rest of the world, but also in the global context of what used to be seen as European movements, such as the Renaissance, which was a fifteenth-to sixteenth-century movement to revive the culture of classical antiquity, Greek and Roman. We focus on the relation of the European Renaissance to the wider world to position the Renaissance in the cont…
The Unbelieved and Historians, Part II
Taking a cue from their less‐than‐marginal place in scholarship today, we call supernatural beings the “Unbelieved” and the explicit or implicit denial of them “Dogmatic Secularism.” We argue that objective historians should not discount, in advance, evidence that points to the existence or involvement of the Unbelieved in history; instead, we should cultivate a sceptical attitude towards all sources. In this, the second half of a two‐part essay,…
The Geographies and Methodologies of Religion in the Journal of Early Modern History
Looking at historiography and methodology for the risks of Eurocentrism and presentism, this essay reflects on the study of the history of religion in the two decades of the Journal of Early Modern History ’s life to date. It first counts the locations of the subjects of the Journal ’s articles, both generally and specifically on religion, to measure patterns in geographical focus. Considering the language these articles use to describe religion,…
The unbelieved and historians, part III
The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of the Unbelieved and in its knowability. Space limitations prevented our following the rich avenues of further inquiry our extraordinary peer reviewers suggested, but we remain grateful, especially for their remin…
Exploring Periodization in the Classroom
The idea of an ‘early‐modern world’ has come into common use despite historians’ lack of enthusiasm for it as a concept. Possible implications of teleology, eurocentrism, and artificial homogenization not unfairly discourage professional confidence in it. The article describes an undergraduate seminar that takes advantage of the professional uncertainty about early modernity. As they move through a series of thematically organized readings, parti…
Merchants, migrants, missionaries, and globalization in the early-modern Pacific
In 1571 the founding of Manila made possible regular transpacific trade and thus forged the missing link in the global trade network. American interest in China and Japan soared to new heights. In the next two centuries this attraction fuelled other globalizing exchanges—parallel to the commercial ties—across the Pacific. Thousands crossed the ocean to create the America’s first Asian diaspora communities, and Mexico became Europe’s clearinghouse…
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions
This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey shows how the vast distances separating missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of t…
Exploring Periodization in the Classroom
The idea of an ‘early‐modern world’ has come into common use despite historians’ lack of enthusiasm for it as a concept. Possible implications of teleology, eurocentrism, and artificial homogenization not unfairly discourage professional confidence in it. The article describes an undergraduate seminar that takes advantage of the professional uncertainty about early modernity. As they move through a series of thematically organized readings, parti…
Jesuit on the Roof of the World
Jesuit on the Roof of the World by Trent Pomplun is the first major treatment of the mission to Tibet undertaken by the Tuscan Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733), one of the earliest European students of that land and its peoples. Since World War II, only Italians have paid much attention to Desideri in his own right; in English-language scholarship, he has appeared primarily in Tibetan Studies. Enzo Bargiacchi's recent studies of Desideri are brief a…
Response and reflection by the author
The Geographies and Methodologies of Religion in the Journal of Early Modern History
Looking at historiography and methodology for the risks of Eurocentrism and presentism, this essay reflects on the study of the history of religion in the two decades of the Journal of Early Modern History ’s life to date. It first counts the locations of the subjects of the Journal ’s articles, both generally and specifically on religion, to measure patterns in geographical focus. Considering the language these articles use to describe religion,…
The Unbelieved and Historians, Part I
In 1855, Thakur led a rebellion of the tribal Santals against the British in eastern India. Some historians refused to admit Thakur's involvement in the event because of a three‐century‐old prejudice against giving supernatural beings agency when we write history. In Provincializing Europe , Dipesh Chakrabarty argues that historians must “anthropologize” such beliefs rather than take them seriously. Taking a cue from their less‐than‐marginal plac…
Teaching and Learning Guide for “The Unbelieved and Historians, Parts I and II”
This teaching and learning guide accompanies the series of “The Unbelieved and Historians” articles, which argues that we should approach religious history with open minds. This guide offers related resources, readings, and a project designed for classroom use
The Unbelieved and Historians, Part II
Taking a cue from their less‐than‐marginal place in scholarship today, we call supernatural beings the “Unbelieved” and the explicit or implicit denial of them “Dogmatic Secularism.” We argue that objective historians should not discount, in advance, evidence that points to the existence or involvement of the Unbelieved in history; instead, we should cultivate a sceptical attitude towards all sources. In this, the second half of a two‐part essay,…
The Global Renaissance
The so-called global turn in the writing of history today involves increased interest not only in the rest of the world, but also in the global context of what used to be seen as European movements, such as the Renaissance, which was a fifteenth-to sixteenth-century movement to revive the culture of classical antiquity, Greek and Roman. We focus on the relation of the European Renaissance to the wider world to position the Renaissance in the cont…
The unbelieved and historians, part III
The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of the Unbelieved and in its knowability. Space limitations prevented our following the rich avenues of further inquiry our extraordinary peer reviewers suggested, but we remain grateful, especially for their remin…
Relevance of Things Past
History of Global Christianity, Vol. I
What Is Early Modern History
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