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Hindu-Catholic Encounters in GOA: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity - Couverture souple

Henn, Alexander

 
9780253012944: Hindu-Catholic Encounters in GOA: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0253012945 ISBN 13 : 9780253012944
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert their own religious identities, but Hindu village gods and Catholic patron saints attract worship from members of both religious communities. Through fresh readings of early Portuguese sources and long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa and reveals the complex role of religion at the intersection of colonialism and modernity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Henn is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is editor (with Klaus-Peter Köpping) of Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency, Hybridity, Embodiment.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253012945
ISBN 13 
9780253012944
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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