A Vietnamese Moses Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism / George E. Dutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutton, George Edson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bỉnh, Philiphê, 1759-1833.

Catholic Church--Vietnam--History--19th century.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Vietnam--History--18th century.

Catholics--Vietnam--Biography.

Catholics.

Vietnam--Church history--19th century.

Vietnam.

Vietnam--Church history--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2016

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Binh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on Binh's surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year exile in Portugal, this book examines how the intersections of global and local Roman Catholic geographies shaped the lives of Vietnamese Christians in the early modern era. The book also argues that Binh's mission to Portugal and his intense lobbying on behalf of his community reflected the agency of Vietnamese Catholics, who vigorously engaged with church politics in defense of their distinctive Portuguese-Catholic heritage. George E. Dutton demonstrates the ways in which Catholic beliefs, histories, and genealogies transformed how Vietnamese thought about themselves and their place in the world. This sophisticated exploration of Vietnamese engagement with both the Catholic Church and Napoleonic Europe provides a unique perspective on the complex history of early Vietnamese Christianity.

Contents:

Introducing Philiphê Bỉnh and the Catholic geographies of Tonkin

A Catholic community in crisis

Journeys : Macao, Goa, and Lisbon

Arrival in Lisbon and first encounters

Invoking the Padroado : Bỉnh and Prince Dom João

Waiting for Bỉnh in Tonkin and Macao

Life in Lisbon and the Casa do Espirito Santo, 1807-1833

The tales of Philiphê Bỉnh.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315 326) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780520966697

0520966694

OCLC:

965829317

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access