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A Vietnamese Moses : Philiphê Bỉnh and the geographies of early modern Catholicism /

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A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Bình, 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 Bình's surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year exile in Por...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dutton, George Edson (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Bỉnh, Philiphê, > 1759-1833.
Catholic Church > Vietnam > History > 18th century.
Catholic Church > Vietnam > History > 19th century.
Catholic Church > History > 18th century.
Catholic Church > History > 19th century.
Église catholique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Église catholique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bỉnh, Philiphê, > 1759-1833
Catholic Church
Catholics > Vietnam > Biography.
Vietnam > Church history > 18th century.
Vietnam > Church history > 19th century.
Catholiques > Viêt-nam > Biographies.
Asian history.
History.
Humanities.
Regional and national history.
HISTORY > General.
Catholics
Vietnam
Priester.
Katholizismus.
1700-1899
Philiphê Bỉnh
Church history
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing 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.