âThat Which Is Not to Be Shownâ: Jesuit Letter-Writing in Colonial Sri Lanka

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Chapter 9 âThat Which Is Not to Be Shownâ: Jesuit Letter-Writing in Colonial Sri Lanka

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In the sixteenth century, Jesuit missionary efforts spread across Asia, as did circulation of missionariesâ letters, which reported conditions to spiritual superiors, represented the work of the Jesuits as effective evangelists, and delivered spiritual edification. This study seeks to explore the Jesuit rhetorical commonplace of letter-writing that some matters are âto be shown,â while others are best kept within the Order. Here, I closely examine two copies of the Jesuit Annual Letter of 1644 from Sri Lanka alongside a representative extract from the 1645 inquiry of abuses in Jaffna. I use Jesuit letter-writing practices as a heuristic to show the unique challenges that the Jesuit order faced in missions during Portuguese colonization of Sri Lanka, a little-considered context in global Jesuit studies to this point.

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Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time

Local and Global Perspectives

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Part 1 Rhetorical Theory and Education

Part 2 Jesuit Rhetoric in Practice: Esthetics, Politics and Theology

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