Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries
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Catholic missionary cultural history
cross-cultural encounters India
early modern colonialism
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hagiographic narratives
Jesuit missions Asia
religious syncretism
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- ISBN 9781041182931
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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
