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