A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism by George E. Dutton
English | Dec. 12, 2016 | ISBN: 0520293436 | 352 Pages | PDF | 18 MB
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.