在帝国与商业中心之间:近代早期东南亚基督教传播中的经济

Between Empires and Emporia: The Economics of Christianization in Early Modern Southeast Asia

前言 基督教在东南亚传播的驱动力之一是欧洲人的贸易竞争,其重要性几乎毋庸多说。对于葡萄牙和西班牙而言,传教事业与商业扩张紧密相连,因为“灵魂救赎”常常被用来替捍卫经济利益的斗争辩护。

Studies of church connections to commercial interests in prenineteen century Southeast Asia have focused on the Catholic venture in the Spanish Philippines. This article uses a broader and more ecumenical framework to incorporate eastern Indonesia into this involvement of Spanish, Portuguese, discussion by comparing the economic and Dutch missionaries and church personnel. It contextualizes differences in church resources, secular oversight, and motivation, but also argues that clerical involvement with European economic ambitions helped to mark out a path toward the domestication of local Christianity The perception of foreign priests and ministers as conduits for exploitation encouraged many Southeast Asian Christians to differentiate between the teachings of the religion they had adopted and the ways these teachings had been distorted in support of European control.