Conflict and conversion : Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700

Conflict and conversion : Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 / Tara Alberts.

This text 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alberts, Tara (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Southeast Asia > History > 16th century.
Catholic Church > Southeast Asia > History > 17th century.
Catholic Church
1500-1699
Conversion > Catholic Church > History > 16th century.
Conversion > Catholic Church > History > 17th century.
Conversion > Catholic Church
Southeast Asia > Church history > 16th century.
Southeast Asia > Church history > 17th century.
Southeast Asia
Church history
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: The Crossroads of the World; I. MISSIONARY STRUCTURES AND NETWORKS; 1. The Arrival of Catholic Missionaries 1511-1600; 2. Rome Takes Charge: A New Layer of Jurisdiction 1600-1690; 3. Assessments of Conversion Potential; II. MISSIONARY METHODS; 4. What Type of People Are You? Performing the Missionary Identity; 5. Tools of Evangelization: Catechisms and Catholic Literatures; III. CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY; 6. Essential Rites? Converts and the Sacraments of the Church; 7. Southeast Asian Catholic Devotions
  • 8. Catholic Women: Nuns, Martyrs, Apostles, and Apostates9. Freeing the Souls of Slaves; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X

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