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Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700
Tara Alberts
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Description for Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700
Hardback. Explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black and white images. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 1FMT; 1FMV; HBJF; HBLH; HRAX; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
Conflict and Conversion explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This region conjured visions of the exotic in the minds of early modern Europeans, and became an important testing ground for ideas about the nature of conversion and the relationship between religious belief and practice. Some Southeast Asians adopted Christianity - and even died for their new faith - while others resisted all incentives, menaces, and cajolement to reject their original spiritual beliefs and practices. In this volume, Tara Alberts ... Read more
Conflict and Conversion explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This region conjured visions of the exotic in the minds of early modern Europeans, and became an important testing ground for ideas about the nature of conversion and the relationship between religious belief and practice. Some Southeast Asians adopted Christianity - and even died for their new faith - while others resisted all incentives, menaces, and cajolement to reject their original spiritual beliefs and practices. In this volume, Tara Alberts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
580g
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199646265
SKU
V9780199646265
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About Tara Alberts
Tara Alberts obtained a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge before holding Research Fellowships at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at the European University Institute in Italy. She is now a Lecturer in history at the University of York.
Reviews for Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700
In this original and interesting work, Tara Alberts offers the reader a fresh look at global Catholicism by studying early modern Catholic missions in Vietnam, Siam and Malacca ... This book will serve as a solid foundation for future research into the history of Catholic missions in South-east Asia.
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