Current blog is1 STEM Ed+ Commons | Paolo Aranha | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/paoloaranha/activity/ Activity feed for Paolo Aranha. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:28:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 dcc61c493caf73d5c1d8f1b18d43e3d3 Paolo Aranha's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1928322/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:21:44 +0000 0 dbfa42a5cf6e0458d98555f1f379cd57 Paolo Aranha's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843600/ Thu, 04 May 2023 11:05:34 +0000 0 d90a75767761d1a703b7bd488746d192 Paolo Aranha's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821815/ Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:21:42 +0000 0 9aa470ffed002d66020c398a24e7ccb0 Paolo Aranha's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745996/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:55:56 +0000 0 23b14f04b61fb5fee63fac792e161c7c Paolo Aranha's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589346/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:34:42 +0000 0 332f3b3794cb321892dcf24ed891f4e8 Paolo Aranha replied to the topic Sort publication list in profile according to categories in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/sort-publication-list-in-profile-according-to-categories/#post-2454 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:16:06 +0000 @terrainsvagues , you all at HC are really great!

]]> 86da5b1f205205ae5f151aca7412dbad Paolo Aranha started the topic Journal of World Christianity in the discussion World Christianity https://hcommons.org/groups/world-christianity/forum/topic/journal-of-world-christianity/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:28:47 +0000 The "Journal of World Christianity" was relaunched last year with a special issue devoted to the Munich School of World Christianity.

The journal is now published by the Penn State University Press.

The current and previous issues can be accessed through JSTOR:

http://www.jstor.org/journal/jworlchri

]]> b80ff0374d22d1ae7e4f126cf174224a Paolo Aranha started the topic Anais de História de Além-Mar, vol. 16 (2015) in the discussion Asia Lusitana https://hcommons.org/groups/asia-lusitana/forum/topic/anais-de-historia-de-alem-mar-vol-16-2015/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:18:42 +0000 The last issue of the Anais de História de Além-Mar (vol. 16, 2015) is now published and available in open access:

https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/19813

]]> d430ac37bcf78269084de25b6196ec0d Paolo Aranha replied to the topic Sort publication list in profile according to categories in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/sort-publication-list-in-profile-according-to-categories/#post-1408 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:24:03 +0000 It's true, the display of CORE items on the personal profiles is currently puzzling. In fact, even a little space between each item would be an improvement, as currently it all looks like like an indistinct mass of hyperlinks.

]]> 42c7a8b4e94305cde901aeb70f3708be Paolo Aranha replied to the topic Embedding Capacity for CORE ala Scribd in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/embedding-capacity-for-core-ala-scribd/#post-1407 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:21:41 +0000 This is an excellent proposal! By the way, it wouldn't be bad to introduce a "Like" function in Group Discussions like this. While I didn't have much to add in substantial terms to Christopher Long's proposal, I did want to express my support: a Facebook-style "Like" would serve the purpose!

]]> 7ff52a99b6b8b61f291e69cb140e15fc Paolo Aranha replied to the topic Analytic availability in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/analytic-availability/#post-1405 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:14:47 +0000 Colin, I think your analysis is very accurate: one of the many problems with Academia.edu is the lack of discussion and interaction.

I also would like to have some enhanced Analytics on HC, although I also think we should undertake a reflection on the best balance between each one's right to privacy and the undeniable utility of data on the…[Read more]

]]> cbf48ce53743691ca20a8bffd3af4ef6 Paolo Aranha deposited REVIEW: Giuseppe Marcocci, "L'invenzione di un impero. Politica e cultura nel mondo portoghese (1450-1600)", (Rome: Cacucci, 2011) in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559050/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:53 +0000 Review of a book by Giuseppe Marcocci on politics and culture in the Portuguese Empire in the long 15th century.

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]]> 0 481652849dcb0a1e274b0033a1e3d22e Paolo Aranha deposited From Meliapor to Mylapore, 1662-1749: The Portuguese presence in São Tomé between the Quṭb Shāhī conquest and its incorporation in British Madras in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559046/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:51 +0000 This chapter explores the survival of a Portuguese presence in Mylapore (today a suburb of Chennai, South India) after the loss of its political and military autonomy. Notions of sovereignty and the boundaries between a pre-colonial and a fully colonial dimension are here questioned on the basis of a little known case study.

]]> 0 481652849dcb0a1e274b0033a1e3d22e Paolo Aranha deposited From Meliapor to Mylapore, 1662-1749: The Portuguese presence in São Tomé between the Quṭb Shāhī conquest and its incorporation in British Madras in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559045/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:51 +0000 This chapter explores the survival of a Portuguese presence in Mylapore (today a suburb of Chennai, South India) after the loss of its political and military autonomy. Notions of sovereignty and the boundaries between a pre-colonial and a fully colonial dimension are here questioned on the basis of a little known case study.

]]> 0 481652849dcb0a1e274b0033a1e3d22e Paolo Aranha deposited From Meliapor to Mylapore, 1662-1749: The Portuguese presence in São Tomé between the Quṭb Shāhī conquest and its incorporation in British Madras in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559044/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:51 +0000 This chapter explores the survival of a Portuguese presence in Mylapore (today a suburb of Chennai, South India) after the loss of its political and military autonomy. Notions of sovereignty and the boundaries between a pre-colonial and a fully colonial dimension are here questioned on the basis of a little known case study.

]]> 0 481652849dcb0a1e274b0033a1e3d22e Paolo Aranha deposited From Meliapor to Mylapore, 1662-1749: The Portuguese presence in São Tomé between the Quṭb Shāhī conquest and its incorporation in British Madras in the group Asia Lusitana https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559043/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:51 +0000 This chapter explores the survival of a Portuguese presence in Mylapore (today a suburb of Chennai, South India) after the loss of its political and military autonomy. Notions of sovereignty and the boundaries between a pre-colonial and a fully colonial dimension are here questioned on the basis of a little known case study.

]]> 0 546d3a365d0052bcfe8bc4dc4e6fbb93 Paolo Aranha deposited “Les meilleures Causes embarassent les Juges, si elles manquent de bonnes preuves": Père Norbert’s Militant Historiography on the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559042/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:50 +0000 Norbert Bar-Le-Duc (1697- 1769), also known as Abbé Jacques Platel, Pierre Parisot, Pierre Curel, traversed identities and continents, making a career out of controversy, becoming knowns as “le fameux Père Norbert”. He worked in South India as a missionary in 1736-1739 and thereafter played a pivotal role in the Malabar Rites controversy. Back…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ee93037037baf81e4435333329c33be Paolo Aranha deposited “Les meilleures Causes embarassent les Juges, si elles manquent de bonnes preuves": Père Norbert’s Militant Historiography on the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559041/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:49 +0000 Norbert Bar-Le-Duc (1697- 1769), also known as Abbé Jacques Platel, Pierre Parisot, Pierre Curel, traversed identities and continents, making a career out of controversy, becoming knowns as “le fameux Père Norbert”. He worked in South India as a missionary in 1736-1739 and thereafter played a pivotal role in the Malabar Rites controversy. Back…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ee93037037baf81e4435333329c33be Paolo Aranha deposited “Les meilleures Causes embarassent les Juges, si elles manquent de bonnes preuves": Père Norbert’s Militant Historiography on the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559040/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:49 +0000 Norbert Bar-Le-Duc (1697- 1769), also known as Abbé Jacques Platel, Pierre Parisot, Pierre Curel, traversed identities and continents, making a career out of controversy, becoming knowns as “le fameux Père Norbert”. He worked in South India as a missionary in 1736-1739 and thereafter played a pivotal role in the Malabar Rites controversy. Back…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ee93037037baf81e4435333329c33be Paolo Aranha deposited “Les meilleures Causes embarassent les Juges, si elles manquent de bonnes preuves": Père Norbert’s Militant Historiography on the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group Asia Lusitana https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559039/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:49 +0000 Norbert Bar-Le-Duc (1697- 1769), also known as Abbé Jacques Platel, Pierre Parisot, Pierre Curel, traversed identities and continents, making a career out of controversy, becoming knowns as “le fameux Père Norbert”. He worked in South India as a missionary in 1736-1739 and thereafter played a pivotal role in the Malabar Rites controversy. Back…[Read more]

]]> 0 186a09dc907dee8e23a8ee404481a308 Paolo Aranha deposited Roberto Nobili e il dialogo interreligioso? in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559038/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:48 +0000 This chapter challenges the idea tha Roberto Nobili was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue and inculturation. On the contrary, it suggests that his interest for our times is rather his theology of religions. A man of the Counter-Reformation, Nobili made propositions as daring as the ones of today's "Asian theology".

]]> 0 186a09dc907dee8e23a8ee404481a308 Paolo Aranha deposited Roberto Nobili e il dialogo interreligioso? in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559037/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:48 +0000 This chapter challenges the idea tha Roberto Nobili was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue and inculturation. On the contrary, it suggests that his interest for our times is rather his theology of religions. A man of the Counter-Reformation, Nobili made propositions as daring as the ones of today's "Asian theology".

]]> 0 1a8ce1a56b66c262591d3fafd39e50e9 Paolo Aranha deposited Roberto Nobili e il dialogo interreligioso? in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559036/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:47 +0000 This chapter challenges the idea tha Roberto Nobili was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue and inculturation. On the contrary, it suggests that his interest for our times is rather his theology of religions. A man of the Counter-Reformation, Nobili made propositions as daring as the ones of today's "Asian theology".

]]> 0 1a8ce1a56b66c262591d3fafd39e50e9 Paolo Aranha deposited Roberto Nobili e il dialogo interreligioso? in the group Asia Lusitana https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559035/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:47 +0000 This chapter challenges the idea tha Roberto Nobili was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue and inculturation. On the contrary, it suggests that his interest for our times is rather his theology of religions. A man of the Counter-Reformation, Nobili made propositions as daring as the ones of today's "Asian theology".

]]> 0 f9ba8f12e4f277941286ad19e461bcda Paolo Aranha deposited La formazione del giovane Roberto Nobili in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559034/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:46 +0000 This article is an archival contribution to the reassessment of the concrete phases of Roberto Nobili's education. Here I demonstrate that, contrary to what previous historians repeated, Nobili's involvement with the College Romano was very short. Moreover, I have discovered that, before joining the Society of Jesus, he studied at the Seminario…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9ba8f12e4f277941286ad19e461bcda Paolo Aranha deposited La formazione del giovane Roberto Nobili in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559033/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:46 +0000 This article is an archival contribution to the reassessment of the concrete phases of Roberto Nobili's education. Here I demonstrate that, contrary to what previous historians repeated, Nobili's involvement with the College Romano was very short. Moreover, I have discovered that, before joining the Society of Jesus, he studied at the Seminario…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9ba8f12e4f277941286ad19e461bcda Paolo Aranha deposited La formazione del giovane Roberto Nobili in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559032/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:46 +0000 This article is an archival contribution to the reassessment of the concrete phases of Roberto Nobili's education. Here I demonstrate that, contrary to what previous historians repeated, Nobili's involvement with the College Romano was very short. Moreover, I have discovered that, before joining the Society of Jesus, he studied at the Seminario…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a272990a5f3368690835e69076995c9 Paolo Aranha deposited La formazione del giovane Roberto Nobili in the group Asia Lusitana https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559031/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:45 +0000 This article is an archival contribution to the reassessment of the concrete phases of Roberto Nobili's education. Here I demonstrate that, contrary to what previous historians repeated, Nobili's involvement with the College Romano was very short. Moreover, I have discovered that, before joining the Society of Jesus, he studied at the Seminario…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc9b0553aa8c6c22ad7bbdda4efc9eda Paolo Aranha deposited Gerarchie razziali e adattamento culturale: La «Ipotesi Valignano» in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559030/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:44 +0000 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, praised for adapting Christianity to the cultures of Japan and China, did not support a similar strategy for India and Africa. He theorized racial hierarchies in which a darker skin was associated with ignorance and vice, whereas the similarity to European physical features implied a higher degree of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc9b0553aa8c6c22ad7bbdda4efc9eda Paolo Aranha deposited Gerarchie razziali e adattamento culturale: La «Ipotesi Valignano» in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559029/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:44 +0000 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, praised for adapting Christianity to the cultures of Japan and China, did not support a similar strategy for India and Africa. He theorized racial hierarchies in which a darker skin was associated with ignorance and vice, whereas the similarity to European physical features implied a higher degree of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc9b0553aa8c6c22ad7bbdda4efc9eda Paolo Aranha deposited Gerarchie razziali e adattamento culturale: La «Ipotesi Valignano» in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559028/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:44 +0000 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, praised for adapting Christianity to the cultures of Japan and China, did not support a similar strategy for India and Africa. He theorized racial hierarchies in which a darker skin was associated with ignorance and vice, whereas the similarity to European physical features implied a higher degree of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc9b0553aa8c6c22ad7bbdda4efc9eda Paolo Aranha deposited Gerarchie razziali e adattamento culturale: La «Ipotesi Valignano» in the group Asia Lusitana https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559027/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:44 +0000 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, praised for adapting Christianity to the cultures of Japan and China, did not support a similar strategy for India and Africa. He theorized racial hierarchies in which a darker skin was associated with ignorance and vice, whereas the similarity to European physical features implied a higher degree of…[Read more]

]]> 0 89085353dbe610879c25b287c4ecdcd2 Paolo Aranha deposited Sacramenti o saṃskārāḥ? L’illusione dell’accommodatio nella controversia dei riti malabarici in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559025/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:42 +0000 Fra il 1704 ed il 1744 la Santa Sede mise al bando i riti malabarici, una particolare forma di adattamento del cattolicesimo alla società dell'India meridionale.
In una prospettiva eurocentrica essi hanno potuto essere considerati come un'anticipazione dell'odierna categoria di inculturazione. Da un punto di vista specificamente indiano tali…[Read more]

]]> 0 89085353dbe610879c25b287c4ecdcd2 Paolo Aranha deposited Sacramenti o saṃskārāḥ? L’illusione dell’accommodatio nella controversia dei riti malabarici in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559024/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:42 +0000 Fra il 1704 ed il 1744 la Santa Sede mise al bando i riti malabarici, una particolare forma di adattamento del cattolicesimo alla società dell'India meridionale.
In una prospettiva eurocentrica essi hanno potuto essere considerati come un'anticipazione dell'odierna categoria di inculturazione. Da un punto di vista specificamente indiano tali…[Read more]

]]> 0 89085353dbe610879c25b287c4ecdcd2 Paolo Aranha deposited Sacramenti o saṃskārāḥ? L’illusione dell’accommodatio nella controversia dei riti malabarici in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559023/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:42 +0000 Fra il 1704 ed il 1744 la Santa Sede mise al bando i riti malabarici, una particolare forma di adattamento del cattolicesimo alla società dell'India meridionale.
In una prospettiva eurocentrica essi hanno potuto essere considerati come un'anticipazione dell'odierna categoria di inculturazione. Da un punto di vista specificamente indiano tali…[Read more]

]]> 0 b94b182d85942e9e97c590eb291ee12a Paolo Aranha deposited «Glocal» conflicts: Missionary controversies on the Coromandel Coast between the XVII and XVIII centuries in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559022/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:41 +0000 At the beginning of the Eighteenth century the Holy See was called to solve the controversy on the Malabar Rites. The Jesuits that were working in the missions of Madurai, Mysore and «Carnate» were blamed for their tolerance of pagan practices and caste discriminations against the pariahs. This article proposes a category of «glocal», syn…[Read more]

]]> 0 b94b182d85942e9e97c590eb291ee12a Paolo Aranha deposited «Glocal» conflicts: Missionary controversies on the Coromandel Coast between the XVII and XVIII centuries in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559021/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:41 +0000 At the beginning of the Eighteenth century the Holy See was called to solve the controversy on the Malabar Rites. The Jesuits that were working in the missions of Madurai, Mysore and «Carnate» were blamed for their tolerance of pagan practices and caste discriminations against the pariahs. This article proposes a category of «glocal», syn…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c469aa0d36040cdd1f0b3d754c85d1e Paolo Aranha deposited «Glocal» conflicts: Missionary controversies on the Coromandel Coast between the XVII and XVIII centuries in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559020/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:40 +0000 At the beginning of the Eighteenth century the Holy See was called to solve the controversy on the Malabar Rites. The Jesuits that were working in the missions of Madurai, Mysore and «Carnate» were blamed for their tolerance of pagan practices and caste discriminations against the pariahs. This article proposes a category of «glocal», syn…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee6e05320ac7fb6c726ca08a98a96b5d Paolo Aranha deposited Early Modern Asian Catholicism and European Colonialism: Dominance, Hegemony and Native Agency in the Portuguese Estado da Índia in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559014/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:21 +0000 The history of the early modern Catholic missions to Asia provides an excellent vantage point to asses the relation between evangelization and colonialism. If the European expansion was an essential pre-condition for the creation of substantial Catholic communities in
that continent, nonetheless the neophytes did not coincide for most of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee6e05320ac7fb6c726ca08a98a96b5d Paolo Aranha deposited Early Modern Asian Catholicism and European Colonialism: Dominance, Hegemony and Native Agency in the Portuguese Estado da Índia in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559013/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:21 +0000 The history of the early modern Catholic missions to Asia provides an excellent vantage point to asses the relation between evangelization and colonialism. If the European expansion was an essential pre-condition for the creation of substantial Catholic communities in
that continent, nonetheless the neophytes did not coincide for most of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee6e05320ac7fb6c726ca08a98a96b5d Paolo Aranha deposited Early Modern Asian Catholicism and European Colonialism: Dominance, Hegemony and Native Agency in the Portuguese Estado da Índia in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559012/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:21 +0000 The history of the early modern Catholic missions to Asia provides an excellent vantage point to asses the relation between evangelization and colonialism. If the European expansion was an essential pre-condition for the creation of substantial Catholic communities in
that continent, nonetheless the neophytes did not coincide for most of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8435e7dfcb9ea70f874fd6ff1f36b15b Paolo Aranha deposited The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559011/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:20 +0000 In this article I analyse the Malabar Rites controversy in terms of spatial integration and exclusion of the subaltern castes of early modern South India. I argue that the morphology of the churches built by the Jesuits in the Madurai mission express a coherent vision of how the neophyte communities should be socially structured.

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