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100			_aChakravarti, Ananya
245		4	_aThe Empire of Apostles : _bReligion, Accommodatio and the Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India / _cChakravarti, Ananya
260			_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2018.
300			_a304 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aThis book recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India. These missionaries struggled to unite three commitments: to their localmissionary space; to the universal Church; and to the global Portuguese empire. Through their attempts to inscribe their actions within these three scales of meaning - local, global, universal - a religious imaginaire of empire emerged. This book places cultural encounter in Brazil and India at the heart of an intellectual genealogy of imperial thinking, considering both indigenous and European experiences. Thus, this book offers a unique sustained study of the foundational moment of early modern European engagement in both SouthAsia and Latin America. In doing so, it highlights the difference between the messy realities of power in colonial spaces and the grandiose discursive productions of empire that attended these activities. This is the central puzzle of the book: how European accommodation to local peoples and theircultures, the experience of give-and-take in the non-European world and their numerous failures, could lead to a consolidation of an enduring vision of cultural and political dominion.
650			_aHistory
650			_aThe Empire of Apostles
650			_aEmpire in Modern Brazil and India
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