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Ines G. Zupanov - Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries) (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds) - 9780472114900 - V9780472114900
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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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Description for Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries) (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds) Hardcover. By focusing on the Jesuit missionary's discovery of Indian "pagan" Hinduism, this book traces the stages of the Jesuit's disconcerting journey into religious relativism or accommodation. It files the construction of the Indian vernacular Catholicism through a complex layering of missionary religious and social intentions and indigenous responses. Series: History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds S. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLL; HRCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.

By focusing on the Jesuit missionary 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 ... Read more

Ines Zupanov is Senior Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds S.
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472114900
SKU
V9780472114900
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About Ines G. Zupanov
Ines Županov is Senior Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Reviews for Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries) (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)
". . . a provocative contribution to the history of early modern encounters between Jesuits and learned guardians of Sanskriti and Tamil traditions in South India, and also provides fascinating new perspectives on the interactions between Catholic and Hindu cultures. . . . This work should interest scholars who study cross-cultural encounters and religious conversion in early modern times, whether ... Read more

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