Opusculum De Sectis Apud Sinenses Et Tunkinenses : A Small Treatise on the Sects Among the Chinese and Tonkinese
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| Title: | Opusculum De Sectis Apud Sinenses Et Tunkinenses : A Small Treatise on the Sects Among the Chinese and Tonkinese |
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| Description: | This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice, including chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, the worship of spirits, magicians, fortune tellers and diviners, and Christianity in the region. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars. Includes a facsimile of the original manuscript. |
| Authors: | Father Adriano di St. Thecla |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Categories: | RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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