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Author Alberts, Tara, author

Title Conflict and conversion : Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 / Tara Alberts
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Catholic Church -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 16th century
Catholic Church -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 17th century
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Conversion -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century
Conversion -- Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century
Conversion -- Catholic Church
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Church history -- 16th century
Southeast Asia -- Church history -- 17th century
Subject Southeast Asia
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191747830
0191747831
9780199646265
0199646260