Writing Tamil Catholicism Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century

• Main Author: Trento, Margherita (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2022
• Subjects: Asian history; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Tamil; Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi; வீரமாமுனிவர்; early modernity; epic poetry; Hindu-Christian encounter; history of rhetoric; Indian Ocean; intercultural encounter; Jesuit missions; Madurai mission; Nāyaka period; South India; Tamil literature; translation practices; vernacular Catholicism
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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, cho...