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Daniel Michon

To Serve God in Holy Freedom

The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731-1734

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This book presents one of the first accounts of Christianity in colonial India by a nun. Set in Goa in the early eighteenth century, this translation of Soror Magdalena's account from Portuguese brings to life a watershed moment in the politics of Christian faith in early colonial India.The volume recounts the nuns' rebellion against the then Archbishop of Goa, Dom Frei Ignaçio de Santa Teresa. In their account they accused him of mistreating the nuns and implored the Superior General and the King of Portugal to replace him. It sketches the intricate relationships between the nuns themselves, the clerical and secular authorities, the fidalgos… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Smith, D. A.
  • ISBN: 978-1-00-017094-8
  • EAN: 9781000170948
  • Produktnummer: 33767011
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'405 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 6 farbige Abbildungen, 3 farbige Fotos, 3 farbige Zeichn., 3 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


Daniel Michon is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, California, USA. He has published a series of articles and a book on archaeology, religion, and digital technology and has written on Taxila and Sanghol in India and on Sambor Prei Kuk in Cambodia. His turn to the colonial period in India emerged out of his first book, Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India: History, Theory, Practice (2015), where he explored British interpretations of archaeological evidence, which in turn led him to the Indo-Portuguese world.D. A. Smith is a translator and writer based in Houston, Texas, USA. His works include The Sign of Wrath (2017), a translation of Orlando da Costa's O Signo da Ira; Avante, Goeses, Avante!: The Portuguese Poetry of Laxmanrao Sardessai; and Sita Valles: A Revolutionary Until Death (2018), a translation of Leonor Figueiredo's Sita Valles: Revolucionária, Comunista ate à Morte (1951-1977).

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