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Rival Mission, Rival Science? Jesuits and Pietists in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century South India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2019

Will Sweetman  and
Ines G. Županov
Will Sweetman*
Affiliation:
Religion, University of Otago
Ines G. Županov
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
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[email protected]
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Abstract

Two European missionary teams, one Catholic and the other Protestant, encountered each other in the Tamil country in the first decade of the eighteenth century. They acted as if and thought that their goals were irreconcilable, even if the Protestants in Tranquebar admitted that the Catholic Jesuit proselytism in the region had been efficient as “preparatio evangelicae” for the Protestant mission. Jesuits and Pietists were not only rivals; they also collaborated, uneasily and unequally, in collecting, processing, and disseminating knowledge. Missionary linguistic and medico-botanical expertise was considered an indispensable proselytizing tool, and it showcased their “scientific” achievements that were admired and envied in Europe. Both Pietists and Jesuits of this period were fighting the early Enlightenment atheists while feeding them the materials from the missions. Both missionary groups were also victims of Enlightenment historiography. Despite their theological differences, they were far closer in their practices than either the missionaries themselves or their historians, who have mostly written from the same denominational perspective, have been willing to acknowledge. In part this was because the Protestants, especially their mission's founders, relied on both texts and converts produced by their Catholic rivals.

Keywords

PietistsHalleCostanzo Giuseppe Beschiphilologymedical botanyMaduraiTranquebarJesuits
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Politics of Piety
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 624 - 653
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2019 

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47 Hallesche Berichte 8, 638. The Hallesche Berichte (henceforth HB) is a series of letters and reports, edited at first by August Hermann Francke, and published from Halle as Der Königlich Dänischen Missionarien aus Ost-Indien eingesandte ausführliche Berichte von dem Werck ihres Amts unter den Heyden. Instalments were added over many years at irregular intervals until the final work consisted of 108 instalments in nine large volumes. The first, consisting of twelve continuously paginated instalments, was complete by 1717. Later volumes, edited in part by Francke and subsequently by his son Gotthilf August Francke, are not continuously paginated, so references here are given to the instalment and page number rather than the volume.

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60 In the second half of the seventeenth century, this top-down method was challenged by the missionaries in Madurai, such as Baltasar da Costa who worked as a paṇṭāram priest and was able to reach out to the lowest castes. See Chakravarti, Ananya, “The Many Faces of Baltasar da Costa: Imitatio and Accommodatio in the Seventeenth-Century Madurai Mission,” Etnográfica 18, 1 (2014): 135–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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68 The editor of the Hallesche Berichte, Gotthilf August Francke, does record the hope that the doctor's work would also widen the missionaries’ access to the Tamil population (HB 26: 153), perhaps because the missionaries had, on occasion, been asked to offer medical assistance.

69 As a rule, no priests were allowed to “cure with their own hand.” For the story of Giovanni Battista de Loffreda, see Županov, Ines G., Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India, 16th–17th Centuries (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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73 Some of stories of healing scattered through the Halle reports are brought together in Johann Lucas Niekamp's history, Kurtzgefaßte Mißions-Geschichte oder historischer Auszug der Evangelischen Mißions-Berichte aus Ost-Indien von dem Jahr 1705 bis zu Ende des Jahres 1736 (Halle, 1740), 469–71.

74 HB 4: 579.

75 Philipps, Thirty Four Conferences, 3.

76 “Gott hat euch Malabaren einen feinen Verstand gegeben, daß ihr von natürlichen Dingen vernünftig zu raisoniren wisset, und gleichwohl seyd ihr so gar blind, und unverständig in geist. Dingen, daß ihr ohne Nachdencken dasjenige fest glaubet, was eure Poëten ehemals erdichtet und in zierlichen Versen aufgeschrieben haben” (HB 1: 506).

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79 Axel Utz, “Cultural Exchange, Imperialist Violence, and Pious Missions” (PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 2011), 14.

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81 For Lutheran responses to questions from Europe, see, for example, Klosterberg, Brigitte, “‘How many people can an elephant carry?’ Questions from Johann David Michaelis to the Missionaries in East India,” in Gross, Andreas, Kumaradoss, Y. Vincent, and Liebau, Heike, eds., Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India (Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle, 2006), vol. 2, 1091–14Google Scholar.

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83 Ibid., 406–10.

84 Though lost for much of the period after its description by Lehmann in 1955 (“Hallesche Mediziner und Medizinen,” 124–25), the manuscript (AFSt/M 2 B 11) was recovered during an inventory of the Halle archives in preparation for the mission's tercentenary in 2006. It is available online (http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:ha33-1-70384), but water damage, which Lehmann already noted in 1955, makes parts illegible and appears to have undermined plans to publish the text.

85 The texts were translated by a Tamil doctor who was subsequently employed by the mission both to look after the mission community and to teach botany and—to the older children—medicine in its schools. He was also to collect further medical manuscripts and copy them for the mission (HB 6: 313).

86 Propagation of the Gospel, 45. On Böhme and the Tranquebar mission, see Brunner, Daniel L., Halle Pietists in England: Anthony William Boehm and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993), 101–28CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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89 Ibid., 2, 407.

90 The main text has in the first section ten chapters on the principles of Tamil medicine, and in the second twelve on the types of illness recognized by Tamil doctors and the medicines used to treat them. For the titles of the chapters, see the online edition (http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:ha33-1-70384); or Josef N. Neumann, “Malabaricus Medicus—eine ethnomedizinisch-historische Quelle des frü;hen 18. Jahrhunderts,” in Heike Liebau, Andreas Nehring, and Brigitte Klosterberg, eds., Mission und Forschung: translokale Wissensproduktion zwischen Indien und Europa im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, 2010), 195–203.

91 The manuscript is divided into two sections, preceded by a long introduction and followed by a vocabulary of transliterated Tamil terms and a list of comments to be added as footnotes to the main text. The pattern of missionary annotations in footnotes to a text written by an Indian author is familiar from the Malabarische Correspondentz, which is also ascribed to Gründler (Liebau, Die malabarische Korrespondenz) and was another of the treatises sent with the Malabarische Medicus.

92 This is described also in the chapter on medicine in Ziegenbalg's Malabarisches Heidenthum, which was written in the same year and is based on the same Tamil text, named here and elsewhere in the Tranquebar sources only as Vākata cuvaṭi, or “medical book”; Ziegenbalg's Malabarisches Heidenthum, Willem Caland, ed. (Amsterdam: Uitgave van Koninklijke Akademie, 1926), 217–20.

93 Hausse, Heidi, “European Theories and Local Therapies: Mordexi and Galenism in the East Indies, 1500–1700,” Journal of Early Modern History 18, 1–2 (2014): 121–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

94 See chapter 3, “Natural History: Physicians, Merchants, and Missionaries,” in Ângela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Županov, Catholic Orientalism, Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge (16th–18th Centuries) (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015), 77–112.

95 Paolino a S. Bartholomaeo, Viaggio alle Indie orientali (Rome, 1796), 367.

96 Ibid., 366–67.

97 On Matteo di San Giuseppe, see Giuseppe Olmi, “Lavorare per i libri degli altri: Padre Matteo di S. Giuseppe, medico, botanico e disegnatore di piante, ‘qui nomine suo nihil edidit,’” in Frederica Rossi and Paolo Tinti, eds., Belle le contrade della memoria: Studi su documenti e libri in onore di Maria Gioia Tavoni (Bologna: Patron, 2009). One copy of his Viridarium Orientale is preserved in the Muséum de l'Histoire Naturelle in Paris (Ms. 1764). We also consulted both Roman and Florentine manuscripts: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, “Vittorio Emanuele II,” Ms. Rari, Fondi Minori, Santa Maria della Scala, Varia, 178. The most interesting volumes, in which botanical and spiritual obsessions of the author are staged in hundreds of drawings, are preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, Ms. Redi 186, and Ms. Mediceo Palatino 29 (vols. 1–8.). See Ines G. Županov, “Amateur Naturalist and Professional Orientalist: A Discalced Carmelite Missionary in Kerala and Rome (18th–19th),” in Rui Manuel Loureiro, ed., Os viajantes europeus e o mundo natural asiático (séculos 16 a 18) [European travelers and the Asian natural world (16th–18th centuries)], Revista de Cultura/Review of Culture, Macau, 20 (2006): 77–101.

98 For his short biography, see Županov, Missionary Tropic s, 259–70.

99 He was the only Indian admitted before the Suppression of the Society of Jesus. The Pietists’ informants, such as those who provided Ziegenbalg with Tamil texts, must also be understood as operating within wider familial networks. See Sweetman and Ilakkuvan, Bibliotheca Malabarica, 32–34. See further Liebau, Heike, Cultural Encounters in India: The Local Co-Workers of the Tranquebar Mission, 18th–19th Centuries (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

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104 On Indian collaborators, see Grove, Richard H., “Indigenous Knowledge and the Significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch Constructions of Tropical Nature,” in Grove, Richard H., Damodaran, Vinita, and Sangwan, Satpal, eds., Nature and the Orient (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 187–236Google Scholar.