A History of Vietnamese Christianity

Encounters and Emerging Horizons

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A History of Vietnamese Christianity is a landmark achievement—the first comprehensive account of Christianity’s four-hundred-year journey in Vietnam. Moving beyond colonial-era myths, this ground-breaking volume uncovers the Church’s Iberian origins, French influences, and the vital, often overlooked, contributions of women and lay believers. It also highlights the witness of Protestant and Evangelical communities and the vibrant faith of the Vietnamese Christian diaspora. Meticulously researched and collaboratively written by Vietnamese and international scholars, this volume opens a new chapter in understanding Vietnam’s religious, cultural, and intellectual heritage.

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Anh Q. TRAN, SJ, is Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Santa Clara University’s Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Gods, Heroes and Ancestors (Oxford, 2018) and co-editor of World Christianities (Orbis, 2016) and Christian Perspectives on Interreligious Encounter (Lexington, 2024), as well as many book chapters and articles related to Asian Christianity, interreligious dialogue, and the Jesuit activities in Vietnam

Tuan HOANG is the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education, and Professor of Great Books, at Pepperdine University. He teaches in the Great Books, history, and humanities programs; and researches the histories of Vietnamese Catholics in the Republic of Vietnam and the postwar diaspora
Foreword
 Peter C. Phan
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Mapping the Worlds of Vietnamese Christianity
 Anh Q. Tran, SJ and Tuan Hoang

PART 1: Missions, Persecution and the Formation of Vietnamese Christianity (17th–19th Centuries)



1 Early Catholic Missions in Vietnam
 Tara Alberts

2 Tonkin and Cochinchina in the Global Networks of Jesuit Asian Missions during the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
 Hélène Vu Thanh

3 The Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and the Formation of an Indigenous Clergy in Vietnam
 Laurent Gatinois, MEP

4 Vietnamese Catholicism in Spanish Dominican Vicariates: Legacies and Vietnamese Initiatives
 Claire Thi Liên Tran

5 Vietnamese Persecutions of Christians in Seventeenth Century Cochinchina
 Nguyễn Mai Kha, SJ

6 Philiphê Bỉnh and Global Catholic Networks in the Eighteenth Century
 George Dutton

7 From Tolerance to Catastrophe: Vietnamese Catholics and the Early Nguyễn Dynasty (1790–1862)
 Nola Cooke

8 Imperial Policies, Local Agency and Colonial Entanglement: Vietnamese Catholics in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
 Lân A. Ngô, SJ

9 Catholic Writings and Their Impact on the Formation of Religious Identity for Vietnamese Catholics between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries
 Anh Q. Tran, SJ

10 Vietnamese Women Religious and the Catholic Church (1670–2020)
 Dung Trang, LHC

Part 2: Colonialism, Nationhood and Global Diaspora (20th–21st Centuries)



11 Colonialism and the Birth of a National Church in Vietnam
 Charles Keith

12 Evangelical Christians during Colonialism and Wartime: Beginning to 1975
 Vince (Vu) Le

13 Western Missionaries and Cultural Integration in Vietnamese Protestantism
 KimSon Nguyen

14 Christians and the State in North Vietnam, 1954–1975
 Nguyễn Quang Hưng

15 Postcolonial Catholicism in South Vietnam, 1954–1975
 Tuan Hoang

16 The Complexities of Political Identity: Catholics and Politics in South Vietnam, 1954–1975
 Thien Bui

17 The Vicissitudes of Church-State Relations: the Catholic Church in Post-1975 Vietnam
 Lan T. Chu

18 Protestantism in Vietnam since 1975
Tâm T. T. Ngô and Hoàng Văn Chung

19 The Exilic Identity of Vietnamese Catholics in the United States
 Tuan Hoang

20 Religious Diasporic Crossing: Our Lady of La Vang and Catholic Devotionalism in Vietnam, the US, Germany and Israel
 Thien-Huong Ninh Villarreal

Appendix: Chronological Timeline of the Development of Christianity in Vietnam
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Audience: Libraries and Academic institutions (university, research institutes); Scholars, theologians, and students of World Christianity, Asian Studies, and Religious History; church and mission leaders; and readers interested in the intersection of faith, culture, and history in Vietnam and the global Church.

Fields: Religious History, Asian Christianity, Vietnamese Studies, World Christianity, Church History, Vietnamese Studies,
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