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Ines G. Zupanov - Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries

Catholic Histories and Fictions

Av Ines G. Zupanov

Del i serien Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World

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Max Weber’s classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward. Since Portuguese imperialism was unable to justify itself without invoking otherworldly intervention, Catholic missionaries provided the vocabulary and narrative of global salvation. Each chapter in this volume explores a range of enchantment techniques used by missionaries, encompassing historical prose, poetry, images, and translations, woven through with emotions and wrapped in illocutionary force. Catholic missionaries in India wrote from and about the soft belly of tropical colonialism with certainty about the triumph of Christianity. Understanding the subterranean bond between history and fiction is at the heart of this book.
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Ines G. Zupanov is a historian at CNRS, Paris. She is a social/cultural historian of Catholic missions in South Asia and the Portuguese empire. Author of three monographs and a dozen edited volumes, she has contributed many articles and chapters to scholarly books and journals in different languages

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“This book […] contributes to [a] broader scholarly effort to understand the reciprocity between global processes and local affairs in specific historical moments. The central theme revolves around “missionary enchantment” in the Indian subcontinent between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. […] Understanding “enchantment,” which is deeply subjective and experiential, poses significant challenges when attempting to interpret it across vastly different cultural and historical con­texts. The book shows how missionaries navigated this challenge through vari­ous strategies, revealing the inherent difficulty in establishing shared meaning and genuine understanding of such experiences.” - Haila Manteghi, University of Muenster, Germany in Mission Studies"Enchantment is defined as a state of personal fulfilment and shared belonging, produced by experiences of wonder that exceed rational explanation. Through the study of histories, biographies, treatises, and letters, the author illustrates how missionaries continually responded to their environment and reinvented their strategies of enchantment to inspire fervor among the missionaries and followers and to persuade unbelievers. [...] Županov’s Missionary Enchantment is a major contribution to missionary historiography. Her novel conceptual framework offers a fresh perspective on the field." - Juan O. Mesquida, Ler Historia

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