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]
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Udgivelsesår:2022
Sprog:English
Serier:Philological encounters monographs volume 3
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Classification:11.50 - Kirchengeschichte. Dogmengeschichte
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Fysisk beskrivelse:XIII, 355 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten
Kommentarer: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"--
ISBN:9789004511613
ac_no:AC17029167
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: by Margherita Trento