The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission

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Autor(a) principal: Chakravarti,Ananya
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: The Jesuit Baltasar da Costa devoted his life to the Madurai mission in seventeenth century Tamil Nadu during the rule of the Nāyaka kings. He was the first Christian missionary to style himself as a paṇṭāram, a Śaiva priest to the lower castes. This paper will argue that his mimetic practice can best be appreciated if read bi-directionally, through the language of European humanism and religious thought, as well as through the new symbolic codes of Nāyaka political order. The article also considers the limits of Costa’s mimetic practice in terms of its success as an evangelical strategy and in the extent to which it was ultimately predicated upon the maintenance of alterity and not the dissolution of difference.
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title The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
spellingShingle The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
Chakravarti,Ananya
mimesis
Jesuit missionaries
Madurai
Portuguese imperialism
title_short The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
title_full The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
title_fullStr The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
title_full_unstemmed The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
title_sort The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
author Chakravarti,Ananya
author_facet Chakravarti,Ananya
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv mimesis
Jesuit missionaries
Madurai
Portuguese imperialism
topic mimesis
Jesuit missionaries
Madurai
Portuguese imperialism
description The Jesuit Baltasar da Costa devoted his life to the Madurai mission in seventeenth century Tamil Nadu during the rule of the Nāyaka kings. He was the first Christian missionary to style himself as a paṇṭāram, a Śaiva priest to the lower castes. This paper will argue that his mimetic practice can best be appreciated if read bi-directionally, through the language of European humanism and religious thought, as well as through the new symbolic codes of Nāyaka political order. The article also considers the limits of Costa’s mimetic practice in terms of its success as an evangelical strategy and in the extent to which it was ultimately predicated upon the maintenance of alterity and not the dissolution of difference.
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