TY - BOOK AU - Dutton,George E. TI - A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism SN - 9780520966697 AV - BX4705.B5195 D88 2017 U1 - 282.092B 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Berkeley, CA : PB - University of California Press, KW - Catholics KW - Vietnam KW - Biography KW - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia KW - bisacsh KW - asia KW - belief KW - catholic KW - catholicism KW - christian faith KW - christian living KW - christian KW - christianity in asia KW - christianity in vietnam KW - christianity KW - conversion KW - convert KW - eastern world KW - faith KW - geography KW - missionary work KW - religion in asia KW - religion KW - religious studies KW - vietnam KW - vietnamese catholics KW - vietnamese christians KW - western religion N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Philiphê Bỉnh and the Catholic Geographies of Tonkin --; 2. A Catholic Community in Crisis --; 3 Journeys --; 4 Arrival in Lisbon and First Encounters --; 5 Invoking the Padroado --; 6 Waiting for Bỉnh in Tonkin and Macao --; 7 Life in Lisbon and the Casa do Espirito Santo, 1807-33 --; 8 The Tales of Philiphê Bỉnh --; Epilogue --; Appendix 1: Time Line --; Appendix 2: Cast of Characters --; Appendix 3: Texts Used by Bỉnh in His Writing Projects --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520966697?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520966697 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780520966697/original ER -