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Religion and empire in Portuguese India : conversion, resistance, and the making of Goa / Ângela Barreto Xavier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022Edition: First SUNY Press editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781438489117
Related works:
  • Adaptation of (work): Xavier, Ângela Barreto. Invenção de Goa
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282.5478 XAV/R
LOC classification:
  • BX1644.2.G63 X38 2022
Contents:
Reform in the kingdom, reform in the empire -- Designing conversion -- New temples and new priests : the establishment of religious orders in Goan villages -- Tools of Christianisation : shaping memory, understanding, and will -- Initial moves : discontent, resistance, acquiescence -- The martyrs of Cuncolim and other episodes of resistance -- The defence of the "genuine nobility" : conflicts of memory, identity, and power.
Summary: "Examines the colonisation of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books MES KC LIBRARY HISTORY RELIGION 282.5478 XAV/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GL42R1 44069

"Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa by Ângela Barreto Xavier was first published by Permanent Black D-28 Oxford Apts, 11 IP Extension, Delhi 110092 India, for the territory of South Asia."

"This book is a shortened version of A invenção de Goa : poder imperial e conversões culturais nos séculos XVI e XVII, published in Lisbon in 2008 by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais."--Page [vii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reform in the kingdom, reform in the empire -- Designing conversion -- New temples and new priests : the establishment of religious orders in Goan villages -- Tools of Christianisation : shaping memory, understanding, and will -- Initial moves : discontent, resistance, acquiescence -- The martyrs of Cuncolim and other episodes of resistance -- The defence of the "genuine nobility" : conflicts of memory, identity, and power.

"Examines the colonisation of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule"-- Provided by publisher.

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