Writing Tamil Catholicism : literature, persuasion and devotion in the eighteenth century / by Margherita Trento
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2022] © 2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philological encounters monographs
volume 3 |
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| Classification: | 11.50 - Kirchengeschichte. Dogmengeschichte |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 355 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| Summary: | "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 catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9789004511613 |
| ac_no: | AC17029167 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Margherita Trento |