Missionary Tropics : The Catholic Frontier in India, 16th-17th Centuries (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)

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Missionary Tropics : The Catholic Frontier in India, 16th-17th Centuries (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 374 p.
  • 言語 ENG,ENG
  • 商品コード 9780472114900
  • DDC分類 266.25409031

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A provocative contribution to the history of early modern Euro-Asian interactions that provides new perspectives on the encounter between Catholicism and Hinduism in India. By focusing on the Jesuit missionary's discovery of Indian "pagan" Hinduism, Zupanov traces the stages of the Jesuit's disconcerting journey into religious relativism or accommodation. At every point of this Euro-Asian encounter, the emerging Catholic communities attempted to twist and turn their own received religion to fit their various collective and/or individual interests. This turning or "troping" of the Jesuit message into pre-Christian modes of religious expression produced the "tropics" of the title. Drawing upon a variety of sources in Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Latin and Tamil, "Missionary Tropics" documents the construction of the Indian vernacular Catholicism or "Tropical Catholicism" through a complex layering of missionary religious and social intentions and indigenous responses. By following Galenic humoral medical theory, the Catholic missionaries defined paganism as a natural outgrowth of the hot and humid climate. Reflecting the complex layering of the missionaries' religious and social intentions and the subsequent indigenous responses, this book should be of interest to all those who study religious encounters and are interested in the issues of religious conversion in the early modern world, in India, and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

        List of Illustrations                      xi
Abbreviations and Note on Transliteration and      xiii
Spelling
        Map of southern India                      xiv
        Map of Goa                                 xv
Introduction: Cartography of Jesuit Early          1   (34)
Modernity in India
  Part 1. Tropical Saints and Relics
    The Sacred Body: Francis Xavier, the           35  (52)
    Apostle, the Pilgrim, the Relic
    A Reliquary Town---Sao Tome de Meliapor:       87  (26)
    The Political and the Sacred in Portuguese
    India
  Part 2. Tropical Virtues and Vices
    Fervors and Tropics: A Jesuit Missionary       113 (34)
    Career in India (Antonio Gomes, 1548--54)
    The Art of Dying in the Tropics: Jesuit        147 (25)
    Martyrs in India
    Tropical Sins and Sins of Hinduism             172 (23)
  Part 3. Disciplining the Tropics
    A Medical Mission in Goa: Pedro Afonso and     195 (37)
    Giovanni Battista de Loffreda
    Twisting a Pagan Tongue: Portuguese and        232 (27)
    Tamil in Jesuit Translations
Epilogue: Tropical Textures                        259 (12)
Notes                                              271 (58)
Bibliography                                       329 (30)
Index                                              359