Converting Rulers

Converting Rulers

Kongo, Japan, Thailand, Hawaii and Global Patterns, 1450-1850

Strathern, Alan

Cambridge University Press

08/2024

350

Mole

9781108702102

15 a 20 dias

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List of Figures and Maps; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part I. Concepts: Introduction; 1. Theoretical Equipment; Part II. Cases: 2. The Miracles of Kongo, 1480-1530; 3. Money, Magic, and Mastery in the Conversion of the Daimyo of Japan, 1560-1580; 4. The Defeat of Christianity in Japan, 1560-1614; 5. Reclining Buddhas and Restless Missionaries: Narai of Ayutthaya and the Encounter with Christianity, 1660-1690; 6. Repulsion from Siam: The Revolt of 1688; 7. Hawaii: The Road to Nowhere, 1800-1821; 8. Hawaii: The High Path to Conversion 1821-1830; Part III. Global Patterns: 9. Hinduism and Confucianism and the Question of Transcendence; 10. Explaining Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion; Appendix; Glossary of Theoretical Terms; Bibliography; Index.