Opusculum De Sectis Apud Sinenses Et Tunkinenses(English, Electronic book text, di St. Thecla Father Adriano)

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Opusculum De Sectis Apud Sinenses Et Tunkinenses(English, Electronic book text, di St. Thecla Father Adriano) is written by di St. Thecla Father Adriano and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501719076 (ISBN 10) and 9781501719073 (ISBN 13).

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.