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Religion and Empire in Portuguese India
2022
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How did the colonisation of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism? And how did these contribute to the making of Goan identity? In this closely argued work, Angela Barreto Xavier asks these questions by reading the relevant secular and missionary archives and texts. She shows how the twinned drives towards conversion and colonisation in Portuguese India resulted in various outcomes, ranging from negotiation to passive resistance to moments of extreme violence. She reveals that, in the process, Portuguese Goa emerged as a space with a specific identity resulting from these contestations and interactions. The Goan elites were also able to internalise this complex body of cultural resources to further their interests and narrate their own myths and histories.
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Ângela Barreto Xavier
Ângela Barreto Xavier
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ÂNGELA BARRETO XAVIER nasceu em Goa, a 27 de Janeiro de 1968. É licenciada em História, variante História da Arte pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, mestre em História e Política e Social Moderna pela mesma faculdade e doutorada em História e Civilização pelo Instituto Universitário Europeu, de Florença. Leccionou na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, e foi Maître de Conférences Invitée na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. É ainda Investigadora Auxiliar do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Tem desenvolvido trabalhos no âmbito da história das ideias e da cultura em Portugal, nos séculos XVI e XVII.
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