Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses : : A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese / / Father Adriano di St. Thecla.
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 rece...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table Of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Translator's Introduction
- Opusculum De Sectis Apud Slnenses Et Tunkinenses. Father Adriano di St. Thecla
- Introduction: On The Sects Of The Chinese And Annamites
- Chapter One: On The Sect Of The Literati
- Chapter Two: On The Spirits And Their Cult
- Chapter Three: On The Sect Of Magicians
- Chapter Four: On Fortune-Tellers And Diviners
- Chapter Five: On The Sect Of Worshippers Of [Buddha]
- Chapter Six: On The Christian Religion Among The Chinese And Annamites
- Glossary 1
- Glossary 2
- Glossary 3
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