Writing Tamil Catholicism Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century
"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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill nv
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Philological encounters monographs ;
Volume 3. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758536006719 |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004511620 |
