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- catalog abstract ""Disputed Mission casts a fresh glance at the social and cultural laboratories that were Jesuit missions in pre-colonial South India." "Confronted with social and cultural idioms which appeared to them as both strange and familiar, Jesuit missionaries embarked on a titanic, utopian, somewhat naive and slippery project of cultural translation, social engineering and ethnographic description. Before they could effectively convert and establish spiritual and political authority over souls and bodies, the Jesuits had to ascertain that they possessed the right knowledge over Indian culture." "By focusing on a dispute between two missionaries in Madurai in the beginning of the seventeenth century, this book chronicles these first efforts at explaining the origin, the structure and the nature of local religious practices." "This book will be of great interest to historians of colonial India and scholars of religious studies and comparative religion."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11741631.
- catalog coverage "India, South Church history 17th century.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Disputed Mission casts a fresh glance at the social and cultural laboratories that were Jesuit missions in pre-colonial South India." "Confronted with social and cultural idioms which appeared to them as both strange and familiar, Jesuit missionaries embarked on a titanic, utopian, somewhat naive and slippery project of cultural translation, social engineering and ethnographic description. Before they could effectively convert and establish spiritual and political authority over souls and bodies, the Jesuits had to ascertain that they possessed the right knowledge over Indian culture." "By focusing on a dispute between two missionaries in Madurai in the beginning of the seventeenth century, this book chronicles these first efforts at explaining the origin, the structure and the nature of local religious practices." "This book will be of great interest to historians of colonial India and scholars of religious studies and comparative religion."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.[249]-270) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue I. Of Men, Letters, and Cultural Latitudes -- Prologue II. Counter-reading Jesuit Sources -- 1. Disputed Customs: 'Political' versus 'Religious': The Dialogic/Polemical Mode -- 2. Between Aristocratic Analogies and Demotic Descriptions: The Geo-ethnographic Mode -- 3. Conversion Scenarios: Discussions, Miracles and Encounters: The Theatrical Mode -- 4. Utopian Prefiguration and Saintly Signs: The Self-expressive Mode.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 277 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Disputed mission.".
- catalog identifier "0195650530".
- catalog isFormatOf "Disputed mission.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Disputed mission.".
- catalog spatial "India, South Church history 17th century.".
- catalog subject "BV3263 .Z87 1999".
- catalog subject "Jesuits Missions India, South History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Missions and Missionaries history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue I. Of Men, Letters, and Cultural Latitudes -- Prologue II. Counter-reading Jesuit Sources -- 1. Disputed Customs: 'Political' versus 'Religious': The Dialogic/Polemical Mode -- 2. Between Aristocratic Analogies and Demotic Descriptions: The Geo-ethnographic Mode -- 3. Conversion Scenarios: Discussions, Miracles and Encounters: The Theatrical Mode -- 4. Utopian Prefiguration and Saintly Signs: The Self-expressive Mode.".
- catalog title "Disputed mission : Jesuit experiments and brahmanical knowledge in seventeenth-century India / Ines G. Županov.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".