Catholic Vietnam A Church from Empire to Nation

Name: Catholic Vietnam A Church from Empire to Nation
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ISBN: 9780520272477

ISBN-10: 0520272471

ISBN-13: 9780520272477

Edition: 2012

Authors: Charles Keith

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In this important new study, Charles Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. By demonstrating how French colonial rule allowed for the transformation of Catholic missions in Vietnam into broad and powerful economic and institutional structures, Keith discovers the ways race defined ecclesiastical and cultural prestige and control of resources and institutional authority. This, along with colonial rule itself, created a culture of religious life in which relationships between Vietnamese Catholics and European missionaries were less equal and more fractious than ever before. However, the colonial era also brought unprecedented ties between…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/18/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.29" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.496

Charles Keith is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction



A Church between the Nguyen and the French



A Colonial Church Divided



The Birth of a National Church



Vietnamese Catholic Tradition on Trial



A National Church Experienced



The Culture and Politics of Vietnamese Catholic Nationalism



A National Church in Revolution and War


Epilogue. A National Church Divided


Notes


Bibliography


Index