l`hindouisme à l`époque de la première modernité - ceias

TableRonde/RoundTable
L’HINDOUISMEÀL’ÉPOQUEDELAPREMIÈREMODERNITÉ:
L’HISTOIREDUCONCEPTAVANTLALETTRE?SOURCESETREPRÉSENTATIONS
EARLYMODERN«HINDUISM»:
HISTORYOFTHECONCEPTAVANTLALETTRE?SOURCESANDREPRESENTATIONS
November14,2011
CEIAS,190‐197Av.deFrance,Paris75013
Salle638‐NoyauA(6èmeétage)
Organizers:MargheritaTrentoandInesG.Županov
InarecentscholarlyproductiononHinduism,theroleofWesternrepresentationsandthehistory
ofitsnamehavebeendiscussedwideandlarge.Europeanorientalistandmissionaryrepresentations
weredecisiveininventingtheconceptintheearly19thcentury,whichhomogenizedalooselyknit
tradition(fromvarioushermeneuticalandideologicalpositionstoritualpractices)intoatightlypacked
geo‐culturalwhole.Duringthe20thcentury,Hinduismwasfinallyrecognizedasa“worldreligion”.
Thegoalofourroundtableistolookspecificallyintoearlymoderngenealogyoftheconcept,
especially,thoughnotexclusively,fromCatholicmissionarysources(Italian,Spanish,Portuguese,Latin,
FrenchbutalsoSanskrit,TamilandMarathi),whileavoidingessentializing,anachronismandteleologystill
presentinhistoriographyandinreligiousstudieswhendealingwithHinduism.Againstfacileclaimsthat
theBritishinvented“everything”andagainstSirWilliamJones’sinvitationtoforget“everythingthatwe
knewaboutIndiabefore”,inthisworkshopwewanttoshowthatknowledge,connectedwithanother
empireanddiversecolonialactors,wasproducedandresponsibleforconceptualizationssuchas,for
example,thetermBrahmanism(bramanismo)inventedin1616byaJesuitinMaduraiandusedafew
yearslaterasa“machineofBrahmanism”byanotherJesuitinKerala.Thenewresearchhasshownthat
theBrahmanconvertsinMadurai,GoaandelsewherehavetoalargedegreedefinedtheearlyJesuitand
Portuguese“orientalist”conceptionsandthequestioniscanwe‐shouldweandhow–disentangleIndian
andEuropeanvoicesintheprocessofconstructingHinduism.Anotherquestionishowtochartthe
itinerariesoftheseearlyCatholicorientalistrepresentationsthoughthe18thcentury(Enlightenmentand
“revolutions”)intothe19thcenturyinwhichIndologyandOrientaliststudiescameofage.
Duringthehalfadayofroundtablediscussionsandpresentations,thegoalofthismeetingisto
sharethemostrecentwork(sincemostoftheparticipantshavejustcompletedthePhDorarestillwriting
theirdoctoraldissertations)onthetopicfromavarietyorarchivalsourcessuchasJesuitrecords,the
archivesofthePropagandaFide,theInquisitioninRomeandGoa,Frencharchives,etc.
Wewouldliketostressthatourprimarygoalistoprovideaplatformforacross‐disciplinary
dialogue.Forthisreason,thepresentationswillbenolongerthansevenminutesfollowedbyfifteen
minutesofdiscussionforeachsession,andwe’llhaveaboutanhourforthegeneraldiscussionattheend
oftheconference.
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EARLYMODERN«HINDUISM»:HISTORYOFTHECONCEPTAVANTLALETTRE?SOURCESANDREPRESENTATIONS
PROGRAM
14:00–14:15
 PresentationofCEIAS(StéphanieTawaLama‐Reval)
 IntroductionbyMargheritaTrentoandInesG.Županov
SESSIONI:14:15‐15:45‐chair:InesG.Županov(CEIAS,CNRS,Paris)
14:15–14:45
 CatherineClementin‐Ojha(CEIAS,EHESS,Paris)“Hinduism:resistingdefinition”,
 FedericoSquarcini(UniversitàdiFirenze,Florence),“Beforethebeginning.Howfarbackcanwe
gowiththe‘originofHinduism’”
14:45–15:15
 AnanyaChakravarti(UniversityofChicago/CHAM,Lisbon),“‘Andthusidolatrybegan’;Reading
ThomasStephens’Kriståpuråna”
 NicolasDejenne(UniversitéParisIII,Paris),“FoundationaccountsoftheIndianWestcoastand
itsBrahminicalcommunity”
15:15–15:45
 PaoloAranha(WarburgInstitute,London),“ASectaBuddaica:theMaduraimissioncontroversy
beyondHinduism,representationsandreligion”
 GiuseppeMarcocci(ScuolaNormaleSuperiore,Pisa),“TheGoaPerspectiveonMadurai:
FranciscanMissionaries,ConvertedBrahmansandtheInquisition(1619‐1620)”
15:45–16:00Break
SESSIONII:16:00‐17:30–chair:CorinneLefèvre(CEIAS,CNRS,Paris)
16:00–16:30
 MargheritaTrento(CEIAS,EHESS,Paris),“ThecostofHinduism.FrenchJesuitmissionariesand
thebookmarketintheCarnatic(1718‐1740)”
 Anne‐JulieEtter(UniversitéParisVII–Diderot,Paris),“Quelleplacepourlesvestigesmatériels
danslestravauxsurl’hindouisme,XVI‐XIXsiècles”
16:30–17:00
 ClaireGallien(UniversitédeMontpellier,Montpellier),“BorrowedKnowledge:Lateeighteenth‐
centuryorientalistmissionaryandIndiansourcesonHinduism”,
 QuentinGarreau(EHESS,Paris),«AbbéDubois’sSourceMaterials»
17:00–17:30
 RicardoVentura(FaculdadedeLetras,UniversidadedeLisboa),“Thecrowdofgods:the
argumentofunityinthemissionaryearlymodernrepresentationsofHinduism“
 JoanPauRubiés(LondonSchoolofEconomics,London),“LibertinereadingsofHindu‘gentilism’
intheEuropeanRepublicofLetters:PierreBayleandJean‐FrédericBernard”
17:30–18:30
 Generaldiscussion