@paulus-aracnea.bsky.social
Christianity in South Asia, Church history, early modern history, archives, politics (mostly Italian) and random thoughts. https://studigermanici.academia.edu/PaoloAranha
And the #NobelPeacePrize goes to...
a supporter of the illegal Zionist occupation of Palestine!
Hurrah!
A fascinating new essay in which Margherita Trento convincingly demonstrates that Tamil “freestanding didactic prose texts intended for a wide public” were not “a missionary or colonial invention.”
www.academia.edu/144297619/
"Catholicity and Missionary Accommodation: the Apostolic Symbol in the Portuguese Translation by Baltasar da Costa (1661) of Roberto Nobili’s Ñāṉōpatēcam"
I've just uploaded an informal English translation of an article that I've published recently in Italian.
www.academia.edu/143363607
NEW
Aranha, Paolo. “Introducir la Trinidad y evitar la Trimūrti: La recepción de la doctrina trinitaria del Credo niceno- constantinopolitano en la India durante los primeros tiempos modernos.” Concilium: Revista internacional de Teología, no. 409 (Febrero 2025): 33–44
www.academia.edu/128531875
An amazing essay by Margherita Trento, by far the greatest expert on early modern Tamil Catholicism!
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Book cover of „Postal Intelligence“ from Rachel Midura.
#onmydesktoday: a book about #earlymodern communication networks, postal infrastructure and the beginnings of European journalism. With mailbags, couriers, and so many postal routes. From @rmidura.bsky.social! This one is for #NewsHistory and #Skystorians with an interest in communication flows.
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ENGLISH version of my new article
Aranha, Paolo. “Introducing Trinity and Avoiding Trimūrti: The Reception of the Trinitarian Doctrine of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Early Modern India.” Concilium: International Journal of Theology, no. 1 (2025): 30–39.
www.academia.edu/128286793/
P. Aranha “Die Einführung der Trinität und die Vermeidung von Trimūrti: Die Rezeption der trinitarischen Lehre des Nizäno-Konstantinopolitanischen Glaubensbekenntnisses im Indien der frühen Neuzeit.” Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie 61/1 (2025): 23–30.
www.academia.edu/128278392/
A new article
Aranha, Paolo. “Introdurre la Trinità ed evitare la Trimūrti: La ricezione della dottrina trinitaria del Credo niceno-costantinopolitano nell’lndia moderna.” Concilium: Rivista internazionale di teologia 61, no. 1 (2025): 45–55.
www.academia.edu/128260351/
#skystorians
#bluestorians
Fantastic first day at UNESCO Routes of Enslaved People Conference. First conference I've been to opened by a head of state! If only politicians in the UK were so enthusiastic about history...
03.02.2025 18:08 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I’m thrilled to announce that my book, provisionally titled “Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade” is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Excited for it to be out in the world in 2026!
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Tamil Mauritius. The small Madurai Mariamen Temple sits nestled between a banyan tree and the M1 overpass. Often associated with indenture in the 19th century, the Indian presence in Mauritius is actually much older. Here are the signatures of skilled Tamil craftsman who lived in port Louis in 1777.
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In this essay, I have analysed the Portuguese translation of an important catechetical work by the Jesuit missionary Roberto Nobili. I have sought to highlight how the concept of "Catholicity" could take on an "accommodationist" connotation in early modern South India.
www.academia.edu/127918568/
Björn Schmelzer, 'The polyphony of nothingness', in the booklet of the CD by Graindelavoix & B. Schmelzer, "Ex nihilo: Polyphony beyond the order of things" (Glossa Platinum, 2024): 9.
#polyphony
#skystorians
#bluestorians
L'Istituto Sangalli organizza un bel ciclo di presentazioni online di nuove monografie di storia religiosa.
Si inizia giovedì 17 ottobre, con "Il governo dei pulpiti:
Predicatori, potere e pubblico nell'Italia della prima età moderna" di Michele Camaioni.
#Skystorians
A fascinating new article
Jiang, Wei. ‘Funerary Emblems in Manila and the Rise of Devotion to Jerónima de La Asunción, OSC (1555-1630)’. Estudios de Historia Novohispana, no. 71 (2024): 85–116. doi.org/10.22201/iih....
Stolen from a colleague…
04.05.2024 20:21 — 👍 3176 🔁 1131 💬 45 📌 46I really cannot understand why «Molliter tu fers mortem filii; quid faceres, si amicum perdidisses?» is translated as «Could you cope with the loss of your son even less manfully?».
22.04.2024 05:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so curious to know what this "De comtemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi" in Nahuatl actually says!
18.04.2024 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How rewarding!
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Emendemus in melius!
#Lent #penance #Quadragesima
youtu.be/SHxdN8gZlEQ?...
Events of this sort say a lot about the dire condition of certain Christian denominations in our time.
It's no surprise if many in the Global South despise the West.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
Digitization & cataloging is complete for the manuscript collection of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Diocese of Duhok, #Iraq.
More information:
hmml.org/collections/news/47-manuscripts-from-the-chaldean-catholic-church-diocese-of-duhok-in-iraq-are-now-available-in-reading-room
A further dimension in the genocidal violence unleashed by the State of Israel against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip.
05.02.2024 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But wouldn't be more social and ethical to pay palaeographers ti undertake such a specialised intellectual work?
Volunteer, unpaid work in cultural heritage is a quite problematic concept.
By the way, I have just discovered that someone has created a Wikipage dedicated to her controversial book:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncerta...
The same Habeck who would now like to ban the AfD as a threat to democracy, in November warned all migrants that they wouldn't be welcome in Germany unless they embraced the Zionist ideology and justified Israel's war crimes.
www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
@m-azzolini.bsky.social , this seems quite promising!
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Will have to read it carefully and ask the opinion of specialists in Chinese history. Right now the impression is that she feels supported by the big shots in her field.
14.01.2024 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I was just looking for it, as she promised a reply in January.
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