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Strange brew: Global, regional and local factors behind the 1690 prohibition of Christian practice in Nguyễn Cochinchina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2008

Nola Cooke
Nola Cooke*
Affiliation:
the Division of Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University
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Correspondence in connection with this paper should be addressed to: [email protected].
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Abstract

In 1690, the previously sympathetic Nguyễn ruler of Cochinchina (located in south-central modern Vietnam) prohibited Christian religious practice in his state. Uniquely in the history of Catholicism in early modern Vietnam, however, the ban did not lead to a persecution of believers. The following article, based extensively on archival materials from the Missions-Étrangères of Paris, historicises this event and the steps leading up to it in 1688–89. It argues that to understand what was happening on the ground in Cochinchina, and why, we need to analyse the way global and regional factors intersected with local, and even personal, ones to cause a prohibition of Christian practice in early 1690, an event for which internal Catholic dissention was almost entirely responsible.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , October 2008 , pp. 383 - 409
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 2008

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