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Symposium

18 sep 2019 kl. 14:00 – 18:00

Lokal: Newman Institute, Uppsala

Several speakers

Origo et sacrificium: Missionaries, Belief Systems, Indigenous Belief Systems & the European Reformations

Welcome to a half-day conference about early modern encounters between European Christian missionaries and non-European belief systems, Wednesday 18 September, 14:00-18:00, at the Newman Institute (Hopkinssalen). Organizers: Anthony Lappin and Pär Eliasson 14:00 14:10 14:40 15:10 15:30 16:00 introduction & welcome Paolo Aranha (LMU, Munich) Præparatio evangelica: (alleged) continuities and ruptures in the early modern Christian missions to India Pär Eliasson Portuguese in India: getting God’s daughter married at the beginning of time fika · coffee Anthony John Lappin Defining the elements of true religion in sixteenth-century Rome Heinz Werner Wessler Cosmopolitanism & early modern Hindi lexicography in 1703: François Marie de Tours’ Lingua mongolana