Writing Tamil Catholicism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing Tamil Catholicism write by Margherita Trento. This book was released on 2022-05-02. Writing Tamil Catholicism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Transformation of Tamil Religion
The Transformation of Tamil Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of Tamil Religion write by Srilata Raman. This book was released on 2022-04-26. The Transformation of Tamil Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought about. The book traces the hagiographical and biographical process by which Ramalinga Swamigal is shifted from being considered an exemplary poet-saint of the Tamil Śaivite bhakti tradition to a Dravidian nationalist social reformer. Taking as a starting point Ramalinga’s own writing, the book presents him as inhabiting a border zone between early modernity and modernity, between Hinduism and Christianity, between colonialism and regional nationalism, highlighting the influence of his teachings on politics, particularly within Dravidian cultural and political nationalism. Simultaneously, the book considers the implication of such an hagiographical process for the transformation of Tamil religion in the period between the 19th –mid-20th centuries. The author demonstrates that Ramalinga Swamigal’s ideology of compassion, cīvakāruṇyam, had not only a long genealogy in pre-modern Tamil Śaivism but also that it functioned as a potentially emancipatory ethics of salvation and caste critique not just for him but also for other Tamil and Dalit intellectuals of the 19th century. This book is a path-breaking study that also traces the common grounds between the religious visions of two of the most prominent subaltern figures of Tamil modernity – Iyothee Thass and Ramalingar. It argues that these transformations are one meaningful way for a religious tradition to cope with and come to terms with the implications of historicization and the demands of colonial modernity. It is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the field of religion, South Asian history and literature and Subaltern studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315794518 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Missionsberichte aus Indien im 18. Jahrhundert
Missionsberichte aus Indien im 18. Jahrhundert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Missionsberichte aus Indien im 18. Jahrhundert write by Michael Bergunder. This book was released on 2004. Missionsberichte aus Indien im 18. Jahrhundert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints write by Reid B. Locklin. This book was released on 2018-01-02. Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of Raj's groundbreaking ethnographic studies of "vernacular" Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.
Pathways through Early Modern Christianities
Pathways through Early Modern Christianities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pathways through Early Modern Christianities write by Andreea Badea. This book was released on 2023-06-12. Pathways through Early Modern Christianities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the midst of a global pandemic, the Frankfurt POLY (Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities) Lectures on "Pathways through Early Modern Christianities" brought together a virtual, global community of scholars and students in the Spring and Summer of 2021 to discuss the fascinating nature of early modern religious life. In this book, eleven pathbreaking scholars from the "four corners" of the early modern world reflect on the analytical tools that structure their field and that they have developed, revised and embraced in their scholarship: from generations to tolerance, from uniformity to publicity, from accommodation to local religion, from polycentrism to connected histories, and from identity to object agency. Together, the chapters of this reference work help both students and advanced researchers alike to appreciate the extent of our current knowledge about early modern christianities in their interconnected global context—and what exciting new travels could lie ahead.
