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

Catholic Histories and Fictions

AvInes G. Zupanov

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-10
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041182931

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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

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List of figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Enchantment Never Ends, Part I: Hagiographies, 1. Holy Zeal and Fervor: Jesuit Enchanted Geography in Asia, 2. Holy Fear and Love: Jesuit Affective Economy, 3. Accidental Global Historians: Jesuits and Discalced Carmelites, Part II: Martyrdom, 4 The History of the Future: Missionary Enchantment of Self, 5. From Pilot to Martyr: The French Connection in Southeast Asia, Part III: Knowledge, 6. Learning about Buddhism: Correspondence between China and India, 7. Neither White nor Black: Goan Brahman Oratorians in Sri Lanka, 8. Science and Demonology: French Jesuits in South India, Afterthought, Bibliography, Index