The relic state : St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India
Gupta, PamilaAuthor
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the 'incorrupt' corpse of Sao Francisco Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the 'incorrupt' corpse of Sao Francisco Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).
Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552.
Colonies
Portuguese
Christianity
Religion
Philosophy & Religion