Writing Tamil Catholicism : literature, persuasion and devotion in the eighteenth century / by Margherita Trento

• Superior document: Philological encounters monographs volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Trento, Margherita
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2022]; © 2022
• Année de publication: 2022
• Langue: English
• Collection: Philological encounters monographs volume 3
• Classification: 11.50 - Kirchengeschichte. Dogmengeschichte
• Description matérielle: XIII, 355 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Résumé: "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

"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...