| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Ines G. Županov. Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries). (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 374. $75.00.

The Jesuits were on the front lines of early modern Christian expansion around the world, growing in number from 1,000 at the death of their founder, Ignatius Loyola, in 1556 to more than 15,000 in the early seventeenth century. They left behind an extensive paper trail of letters, devotional literature, and rhetorical and polemical works. Drawing on these documents, Ines G. Županov has written an engaging account of the relatively neglected story of Jesuit mission work in the Portuguese empire in India. She begins with a definition of her use of the words "tropics" and "tropicality," metaphors for the unique character of the encounter between European Christians and India. She finds "tropicality" a better word than other anthropological terms such as acculturation, inculturation, or métissage.

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