Ines G. Županov, Jesuit Missions in Coastal and South India (1543–1773): Between Mission and Empire (Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025), 133 pp.
Abstract
The monograph by Ines G. Županov, Jesuit Missions in Coastal and South India (1543–1773): Between Mission and Empire, published in 2025 as part of the series Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies (vol. 23), offers a synthetic account of the history of Jesuit missions in coastal and South India from the mid-sixteenth century until the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. The author, affiliated with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, attempts a comprehensive treatment of a phenomenon that has most often been addressed in a fragmentary manner in the historiography – either within the framework of colonial history or in studies of Catholic missionary activity. The volume comprises 133 pages and is available in both print and electronic formats. Despite its relatively modest length, it represents an ambitious attempt to present a multifaceted account of Jesuit activity in a region that played a crucial role in the early modern globalization of Christianity.
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