Max Weber’s classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward. Since Portuguese imperialism was unable to justify itself without invoking otherworldly intervention, Catholic missionaries provided the vocabulary and narrative of global salvation. Each chapter in this volume explores a range of enchantment techniques used by missionaries, encompassing historical prose, poetry, images, and translations, woven through with emotions and wrapped in illocutionary force. Catholic missionaries in India wrote from and about the soft belly of tropical colonialism with certainty about the triumph of Christianity. Understanding the subterranean bond between history and fiction is at the heart of this book.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Enchantment Never Ends
- Part I: Hagiographies
- 1. Holy Zeal and Fervor: Jesuit Enchanted Geography in Asia
- 2. Holy Fear and Love: Jesuit Affective Economy
- 3. Accidental Global Historians: Jesuits and Discalced Carmelites
- Part II: Martyrdom
- 4. “The History of the Future:” Missionary Enchantment of Self
- 5. From Pilot to Martyr: The French Connection in Southeast Asia
- Part III: Knowledge
- 6. Learning About Buddhism: Correspondence Between China and India
- 7. Neither White nor Black: Goan Brahman Oratorians in Sri Lanka
- 8. Science and Demonology: French Jesuits in South India
- Afterthought
- Backmatter
- List of Figures
- Fig. 1. Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the “St. Petersburg Album,” 1615–8. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper, 25.3 × 18 cm. National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Purchase — Charles Lang F
- Fig. 2. The martyrdom of Marcello Mastrilli in Japan. From Ignacio Stafford, SJ, Historia de la celestial Vocacion, Missiones apostolicas, y gloriosa Muerte; del Padre Marcelo Fran [cis]co Mastrili, hijo del Marques de S. Marsano, Indiatico felicissimo de
- Fig. 3. Xavier as a pilgrim from Mastrilli’s miracle, oil painting in the basilica Bom Jesus, Goa (picture taken by IGŽ).
- Fig. 4. Francis Xavier’s tomb, with silver casket, the basilica Bom Jesus, Goa (picture taken by IGŽ).
- Fig. 5. Magdalena de Iassu, Xavier’s sister, the abbess of the monastery of Clarissas in Gandía, detail from Xavier’s funerary silver casket in the basilica Bom Jesus, seventeenth century, Goa (picture taken by IGŽ).
- Fig. 6. Mastrilli’s healing scene in Naples, detail from Xavier’s funerary silver casket in the basilica Bom Jesus, seventeenth century, Goa (picture taken by IGŽ).
- Fig. 7. Mastrilli’s healing scene in Naples, detail from Xavier’s reliquary box, seventeenth century, Museum of Christian Art, Goa (picture taken by IGŽ).
- Fig. 8. Manuel Godinho de Erédia, cutting an elephant’s trunk, aquarelle illustration. Source: História dos serviços com martírio de Luís Monteiro Coutinho (1613), Ms. BNL, Res., Cód. N. 414, f.174. Used with permission from the Biblioteca Nacional de Por
- Fig. 9. Manuel Godinho de Erédia, martyrdom of Luís Monteiro Coutinho, aquarelle illustration. Source: História dos serviços com martírio de Luís Monteiro Coutinho (1613), Ms. BNL, Res., Cód. N. 414, f. 175. Used with permission from the Biblioteca Nacion
- Fig. 10. Church in Avūr in Tamil Nadu, established by Jean Venant Bouchet, early-eighteenth century (photo: IGŽ).
- Fig. 11. Map of the Royaume de Carnate by Jean Venant Bouchet. Source: Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, vol. 15 (1722), 1.
- Fig. 12. Frontispiece of the book by Jean François Baltus (name absent). Source: Réponse à l’histoire des oracles, de Mr. De Fontennelle, de l’Academie Françoise: Dans laquelle on réfute le Systéme de Mr. Van-Dale, sur les Auteurs des Oracles du Paganisme
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