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Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices

Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices

Joby, Christopher

Hardcover

LinguisticsGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 9004716343
ISBN13: 9789004716346
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 20 2025
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
This is the first book-length study of the reception of Christianity and the epistemic outcomes of contact between Protestant and Catholic missionaries and Indigenous Austronesians in the contact zone of seventeenth-century colonial Taiwan.

In the Age of European Expansion, Dutch Reformed and Spanish Catholic missionaries attempted to win the souls of Indigenous Austronesian people in Taiwan. Christopher Joby examines the strategies that the missionaries employed to overcome the gap between their own cultures and languages and those of the Indigenous Austronesians or Formosans in the contact zone of seventeenth-century Taiwan, and evaluates the success of these strategies. As such, this book is a reception history of the texts, beliefs, and practices that Reformed Protestant and Catholic missionaries introduced to convert the Formosans to their mode of Christianity. Using many linguistic and non-linguistic examples, this approach allows for a 'complementary colour perspective' by comparing the epistemic outcomes of the Dutch Reformed and Spanish Catholic missions.

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