Writing Tamil Catholicism : : Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century /

Writing Tamil Catholicism : : Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century / / Margherita Trento.

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"In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechist...

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Superior document:Philological Encounters Monographs ; Volume 3
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Trento, Margherita,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Philological encounters monographs ; Volume 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (369 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • ‎Contents
  • ‎Acknowledgments
  • ‎Figures
  • ‎Abbreviations
  • ‎Notes on Transliteration and Translation
  • ‎Introduction. Catholic Literary Practices in Eighteenth-Century South India
  • ‎1. Genealogies of Tamil Catholicism
  • ‎2. Microstoria and the Global in the Local
  • ‎3. The Beginnings of Catholic Literature in Tamil
  • ‎3.1. Writing before Accommodation
  • ‎3.2. Social Accommodation in Madurai
  • ‎3.3. The Literary Turn
  • ‎3.4. Beyond Accommodation
  • ‎4. The Making of an Archive
  • ‎5. Chapter Outline and Threads across the Chapters
  • ‎Part 1. Spiritual Institutions
  • ‎Chapter 1. Spiritual Exercises for Tamil Saints
  • ‎1. Being a Catechist: Preaching and Literature
  • ‎2. Being a Catechist: Caste and Profession
  • ‎3. Bringing the Spiritual Exercises to the Mission
  • ‎4. Spiritual Retreats between Italy and India
  • ‎5. Missionary Strategies and Tamil Locations
  • ‎Chapter 2. Tamil Manuals for Catholic Selves
  • ‎1. Creating a Catholic Self: The Ñāṉamuyaṟci
  • ‎2. Disciplining the Catholic Self: The Vētiyaroḻukkam
  • ‎3. The Dangers of a Self in Transition
  • ‎4. The Catholic Self and Its Other: The Vētaviḷakkam
  • ‎5. Conclusions: Catholic Selves, Dangers and Discipline
  • ‎Part 2. Rhetorical Education
  • ‎Chapter 3. Catholic Poetics and Politics of Space
  • ‎1. Jesuit Humanism and Devotion
  • ‎2. Kaveri Delta Politics
  • ‎3. A Mirror for a Tamil Christian King
  • ‎4. The Ēlākkuṟicci School of Rhetoric
  • ‎5. Ēlākkuṟicci as a Christian Maṭam
  • ‎Chapter 4. A Tamil Grammar of Persuasion
  • ‎1. A Textbook of (Christian) Tamil: The Toṉṉūlviḷakkam
  • ‎2. Amplificatio as Poruḷ
  • ‎3. The Grammar of Society
  • ‎4. Ignorant Enemies
  • ‎5. Conclusions: Tamil Poetry and the Grammar of Persuasion
  • ‎Part 3. Catholic Poetry in a Tamil World
  • ‎Chapter 5. Writing for Eighteenth-Century Catechists.
  • ‎1. Christian Epic and Tamil Peruṅkāppiyam
  • ‎2. Worldly Publics, Divine Patrons
  • ‎3. Angelic Time and the Relocation of Devotion
  • ‎4. Tamil Demons and Christian Wonder
  • ‎5. Staged Conversions
  • ‎5.1. The Temptations of Rebirth
  • ‎5.2. The Devil Is a Woman
  • ‎5.3. The Discernment of the Pēys
  • ‎Chapter 6. Reading as an Eighteenth-Century Catechist
  • ‎1. Paper and Palm-Leaf Trails
  • ‎2. Catechist Dynasties
  • ‎3. Śaiva Neighbors and Rivals
  • ‎4. Towards the Colonial Archive
  • ‎5. Conclusions: Catholic Lay Identities in the longue durée
  • ‎Conclusions
  • ‎Bibliography
  • ‎Index: People, Places, Works.

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