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The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodation, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India

 
Ananya Chakravarti (Author)
Synopsis

The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were key participants in both regions. As they sought to reconcile three commitments-to local missionary spaces, to a universal Church, and to the global Portuguese empire-the Jesuits forged a religious vision of empire.

Ananya Chakravarti explores both indigenous and European experiences to show how these missionaries learned to negotiate everything with the diverse peoples they encountered and that nothing could simply be imposed. Yet Jesuits repeatedly wrote home in language celebrating triumphal impositions of European ideas and practices upon indigenous people. In the process, while empire was built through distinctly ambiguous interactions, Europeans came to imagine themselves in imperial moulds. In this dynamic, in which the difficult lessons of empire came to be learned and forgotten repeatedly, Chakravarti demonstrates an enduring and overlooked characteristic of European imperialism.

Contents: Introduction. 1. From Contact to ‘Conquest’. Part I: In Search of the Indies. 2. Other Indies. 3. The Living Books. Part II: A Ccommodatio and the Poetics of Location. 4. José de Anchieta and the Poetics of Warfare. 5. Christ in the Brahmapuri: Thomas Stephens in Salcete. Part III: Religion, Accommodatio and the Imagination of Empire. 6. Theatres of Empire: António Vieira and Baltasar da Costa in Brazil and India. 7. The Empire of Apostles. Epilogue. Glossary of Key Terms. Bibliography. Index.

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Bibliographic information

Title The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodation, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India
Format Hardcover
Date published: 19.06.2018
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 9780199485086
length 376p.