Early Protestant empires in Asia - in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan and elsewhere - brought missionaries with them. Like their Catholic predecessors, they learned that winning converts was formidably difficult, especially in empires that were principally commercial.
As this lecture will show, some concluded that the effort was futile; others grew increasingly coercive; but others still began to explore ways of learning from and with indigenous peoples. The results, for good or ill, set patterns that still affect the region today.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie
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