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Summary:

"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"--Publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Philiphê B̉inh 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 : B̉inh and Prince Dom João
• Waiting for B̉inh in Tonkin and Macao
• Life in Lisbon and the Casa do Espirito Santo, 1807-1833
• The tales of Philiphê B̉inh.

Author/Creator:

Dutton, George Edson , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê B̉inh and the geographies of early modern Catholicism [by Dutton, G.E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Vietnamese Moses [by Dutton, G.E.] (Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] — ISBN 9780520293434; LCCN 2016035712)

Related Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE

Subjects:

Bỉnh, Philiphê, 1759-1833

Catholic Church — Vietnam — History — 18th century

Catholic Church — Vietnam — History — 19th century

Catholics — Vietnam — Biography

Vietnam — Church history — 18th century

Vietnam — Church history — 19th century

Catholic Church

1700-1899

Church history

Catholics

Vietnam

Genres:

History

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-326) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BX4705.B5195 D888 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780520966697 (electronic book)
0520966694 (electronic book)
9780520293434 (paperback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0520293436 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016036930

OCLC Numbers:

956530330