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Hindu-Christian epistolary self-disclosures : Malabarian correspondence between German Pietist missionaries and South Indian Hindus (1712-1714) / translated, introduced and annotated by Daniel Jeyaraj and Richard Fox Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Documents on the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America ; 3.
- Dokumente zur aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte : Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika ; 3 = Documents on the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America ; 3, 2190-3603
- Language:
- English
- Tamil
- Subjects (All):
- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, 1683-1719--Correspondence.
- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus.
- Gründler, Johann Ernst, 1677-1720--Correspondence.
- Gründler, Johann Ernst.
- Gründler, Johann Ernst, 1677-1720.
- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, 1683-1719.
- Christianity and other religions--Hinduism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Relations--Christianity.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Hinduism--India, South.
- Missions, German--India, South.
- Missions, German.
- Civilization.
- Religion.
- India, South--Religion.
- India, South.
- India, South--Civilization.
- South India.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 349 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Tamil Letters translated in English.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Tranquebar as a venue for cross-cultural communication ; Why a new English translation is needed ; Translation and translatability ; How this volume unfolds
- The Tamil letters in their contexts. Tranquebar's origins as a Danish colony ; Origins of the royal Danish mission ; Consolidating the royal Danish mission in Denmark ; The Copenhagen-Halle connection ; The royal Danish mission and its London supporters ; Origins of the royal Danish-Halle Mission in Tranquebar ; Historical background of the Tamil letters ; First attempts and early failures ; Gründler's contacts with the Brahmins of Tiruvorri̲yūr; Identification of the Tamil correspondents; The first set of 58 Tamil letters; The loss of three Tamil letters; Francke's editorial role; Re-starting the Tamil letters project; On learning/row the Tamils : its theological peril and promise ; The second set of 46 Tamil letters and the unexplained loss of two ; Social and theological dimensions of the Tamil letters ; Historiographical questions ; Historical accuracy and inaccuracy ; Epistolary etiquette ; Transliteration methods ; Intertextuality and the Tamil letters ; Tropes of Bhakti ; Gender and Patriarchy ; Religion : good and bad, and the Asymmetries of colonial society
- The 55 Tamil letters
- The 44 Tamil letters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783447068444
- 3447068442
- OCLC:
- 828859248
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