To Serve God in Holy Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780367540838 / Miękka / 2023 / 190 str.

D. A. Smith

Opis

This book presents one of the first accounts of Christianity in colonial India by a nun. Set in Goa in the early 18th 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.  

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Foreword by Timothy J. Coates; Acknowledgments/Agradecimentos; People mentioned in the Relação; Introduction; Side-by-side transcription and translation of the Relação; Appendix A: Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica of Goa; Bibliography

O autorze

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).