A Pescaria das Almas: a construção do ideário missionário na Índia Meridional na primeira metade do século XVI

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the narratives of conversion and missioning in Portuguese Asia, especially in order to identify their influences, similarities and differences. Through the comparison, mainly between the characters Miguel Vaz and Francis Xavier, I sought to demonstrate how the first half of the sixteenth century was important to the organization, systematization and implementation of conversion policies. For that, I tried to understand how the conjuncture of ecclesiastical agents who went to Portuguese India and its surroundings influenced the development of its actions, the development of the theme of conversion in the historical process of Latin Christianity itself affected the framework of evangelization, and the conversion has been incorporated within the Portuguese imperial process. Therefore, the one will find in this work an effort to identify and analyze the experiences that founded the ideas of the Portuguese Asian missions.