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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Trento Margherita"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Writing Tamil Catholicism : Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century / / Margherita Trento"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2022"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9789004511620"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9004511628"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[First edition.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (369 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Philological Encounters Monographs ; ; 3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2022"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"204"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Religion and literature"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Tamil poetry - Catholic authors"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Tamil poetry - 18th century - History and criticism"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Chicago, 2019."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes to Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction: Catholic Literary Practices in Eighteenth-Century South India -- 1 Genealogies of Tamil Catholicism -- 2 Microstoria and the Global in the Local -- 3 The Beginnings of Catholic Literature in Tamil -- 4 The Making of an Archive -- 5 Chapter Outline and Threads across the Chapters -- Part 1 Spiritual Institutions -- 1 Spiritual Exercises for Tamil Saints -- 1 Being a Catechist: Preaching and Literature -- 2 Being a Catechist: Caste and Profession -- 3 Bringing the Spiritual Exercises to the Mission -- 4 Spiritual Retreats between Italy and India -- 5 Missionary Strategies and Tamil Locations -- 2 Tamil Manuals for Catholic Selves -- 1 Creating a Catholic Self: The Ñāṉamuyaṟci -- 2 Disciplining the Catholic Self: The Vētiyaroḻukkam -- 3 The Dangers of a Self in Transition -- 4 The Catholic Self and Its Other: The Vētaviḷakkam -- 5 Conclusions: Catholic Selves, Dangers and Discipline -- Part 2 Rhetorical Education -- 3 Catholic Poetics and Politics of Space -- 1 Jesuit Humanism and Devotion -- 2 Kaveri Delta Politics -- 3 A Mirror for a Tamil Christian King -- 4 The Ēlākkuṟicci School of Rhetoric -- 5 Ēlākkuṟicci as a Christian Maṭam -- 4 A Tamil Grammar of Persuasion -- 1 A Textbook of (Christian) Tamil: The Toṉṉūlviḷakkam -- 2 Amplificatio as Poruḷ -- 3 The Grammar of Society -- 4 Ignorant Enemies -- 5 Conclusions: "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Tamil Poetry and the Grammar of Persuasion -- Part 3 Catholic Poetry in a Tamil World -- 5 Writing for Eighteenth-Century Catechists -- 1 Christian Epic and Tamil Peruṅkāppiyam -- 2 Worldly Publics, Divine Patrons -- 3 Angelic Time and the Relocation of Devotion -- 4 Tamil Demons and Christian Wonder -- 5 Staged Conversions -- 6 Reading as an Eighteenth-Century Catechist -- 1 Paper and Palm-Leaf Trails -- 2 Catechist Dynasties -- 3 Śaiva Neighbors and Rivals -- 4 Towards the Colonial Archive -- 5 Conclusions: Catholic Lay Identities in the Longue durée -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","\"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\"--"]