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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. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.
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Keywords
- Asia
- Asian history
- Christian Churches & denominations
- christianity
- Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi
- Dravidian languages
- early modernity
- Epic poetry
- Geographical Qualifiers
- Hindu-Christian encounter
- History
- history of rhetoric
- Humanities
- Indian Ocean
- Indian sub-continent
- Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages
- intercultural encounter
- Jesuit missions
- Language qualifiers
- Madurai mission
- Nāyaka period
- Regional & national history
- Religion & beliefs
- Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
- South India
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Tamil
- Tamil literature
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK South Asia (Indian sub-continent)::1FKS Sri Lanka
- thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BR Dravidian languages::2BRT Tamil
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
- translation practices
- vernacular Catholicism
- வீரமாமுனிவர்
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DOI: 10.1163/9789004511620Editions