During the ‘thick globalism’ of the early modern world, evidence of religious contact, between conflict and commerce, has been overlooked in national narratives. In Palimpsests of Religious Encounter in Asia, 1500–1800, a cross-disciplinary group of international experts delve into on-site artefacts and archives to consider the geographical imagination, the transfer of knowledge, the politics of interreligious dialogue, the practice of reception, and the cyclical flow of meaning across transcultural things. Illustrations of objects rarely available to the public demonstrate how religious belief can provide a shared methodological platform for the global turn of art history.
Mia M. Mochizuki was a tenured professor at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and NYU Abu Dhabi. Her books have treated Dutch iconoclasm, the Netherlandish print, Japanese–Western artistic exchange, global Jesuit visual culture, and the Northern landscape.
Ines G. Županov is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She has published monographs and edited volumes on Jesuit missions in South Asia, including The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits (2019).
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Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
A Note on Translation and Transliteration
1. What Remains: The Transcultural Legacy of Making
Mia M. Mochizuki
Part 1
Discursive Geographies
2. Eagle-Eyed Encounter: Miraculous or Global in Portuguese Asia (1720)
Ines G. Županov
3. The Hair Relics of the Prophet Muhammad in Kashmir: Mapping Transregional Connectivities
Fayaz A. Dar and Zubair Khalid
4. India through the Japanese Looking Glass: Cartographic Encounters and the Buddhist World Picture
D. Max Moerman
Part 2
Epistemological Transfers
5. ‘Come, Let Us Ascend to the Heavens’: The Jantar Mantar at Jaipur and the Politics of Scientific Architecture
Dhruv Raina
6. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and St Francis Xavier: Kami-Making and the Impact of the Cult of Saints in Japan, 1552–1622
Timon Screech
7. The Agency of Bezoar and Goa Stones in Global Religious Encounter
Edith Llamas Camacho and Guillermo Wilde
Part 3
Dialogic Politics
8. Carlo Dolci’s Madonna with the Thumb: A Dialogue between Giovanni Battista Sidoti and Arai Hakuseki
Kayo Hirakawa
9. The Paravur Dialogues: The First Modern Prose in Malayalam?
Emy Merin Joy
10. Taming the Fascist Dragon: Pasquale d’Elia, S.J. and Early Modern Chinese Christian Art
Antonio De Caro
Part 4
Reception Hermeneutics
11. Visual and Personal Displacements in the Chinese Reception of Christian Illustrated Prints
Nicolas Standaert
12. From Rome to Goa: The Question of the First Goan Church
Sidh Losa Mendiratta
13. Material Encounters: Ivory and Metalwork in the Earliest Philippine Devotional Art
René B. Javellana, S.J.
Part 5
The Migration of Meaning
14. Syncretic Stowaways: Dutch Maritime Imagery in Buddist Temples and Shinto Shrines
Michiko Fukaya
15. The Mount, the Garden, the Tree: Material Images and Moral Meanings in Constantine Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi Chapters 18–19
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
16. The Incipient Devotion to the Martyrs of Japan: The ‘True Images’ of the Calvary of Nagasaki
Raphaèle Preisinger
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