On gentilidade as a religious offence: a specificity of the Portuguese inquisition in Asia?

Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço

doi:10.1163/9789004472839_008

On gentilidade as a religious offence: a specificity of the Portuguese inquisition in Asia?

Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço

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Abstract

From the 1620s on, inquisitors in Goa referred ever more frequently to ‘gentilidade’ to name a type of religious offence perpetrated by local Christians in the Estado da Índia. This contribution proposes that the notion of ‘gentilidade’ employed by the inquisitors was a consequence of the overwhelming judicial activity of the Holy Office of Goa against religious offences originating in local customs, which resulted in singling out one that specifically suggested heresy and apostasy—which they named ‘gentilidade’. This chapter analyses how this identification can be established and whether it represented a specificity in the Portuguese Inquisition by comparing such cases to the Santidade movement in Brazil.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Norms beyond empire
Subtitle of host publication	law-making and local normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800
Editors	Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Chapter	7
Pages	207-248
Number of pages	42
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004472839
ISBN (Print)	9789004472822
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004472839_008
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Name	Max Planck studies in global legal history of the iberian worlds
Volume	3
ISSN (Print)	2590-3292

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Lourenço, M. R. (2022). On gentilidade as a religious offence: a specificity of the Portuguese inquisition in Asia? In M. B. Saavedra (Ed.), Norms beyond empire: law-making and local normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800 (pp. 207-248). (Max Planck studies in global legal history of the iberian worlds; Vol. 3). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004472839_008

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On gentilidade as a religious offence: a specificity of the Portuguese inquisition in Asia? / Lourenço, Miguel Rodrigues.
Norms beyond empire: law-making and local normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800. ed. / Manuel Bastias Saavedra. Brill Academic Publishers, 2022. p. 207-248 (Max Planck studies in global legal history of the iberian worlds; Vol. 3).

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