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Política et retórica : estratégias de conversão nas missões jesuítas do Mogol e Tibete (XVI-XVIII)

Co-direction de thèse : Ines G. Zupanov. Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron

Ecole doctorale : Histoire et civilisations

Année d'inscription : 2012

In this thesis, I analyze written sources (letters and treatises in Portuguese, Italian and Spanish) produced by the Jesuite missionaries at the Mughal court and in Tibet, from 1570 to 1721. I also address Jesuit presence in Bengal and try to connect these mission spaces by way of their correspondence. My research starts with the decade preceding the establishment of the Jesuits at the Akbar’s court, and concludes with Ippolito Desideri’s last year in Lhasa. At the heart of my thesis is the relationship between the conversion strategies adopted in these missions and the elaboration of categories such as “predication” based on dialogue and persuasion as the only possible catechetical method