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Using accounts from a range of largely under-explored archives, it provides a detailed comparative account of the practical strategies employed by missionaries to move and trade necessary commodities, to manage specie, to fund missions, and to manage costs.
Enflamed by jurisdictional and methodological disagreements between different religious orders, intense public and private debates raged about the propriety of almost all methods used to achieve these ends. Particularly controversial were the establishment of commercial networks and involvement in trade by various religious orders around Southeast Asia, and the numerous financial and commercial innovations developed by them to suit local realities on diverse mission fields.
Anxieties about a number of controversial practices filtered into missionary rhetoric in intriguing ways. This chapter will explore the role of commerce, specie, trade and market exchange on the mission fields and within discourse about missionary spirituality. Social Media Overview. General Resources. Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Browse Our Titles. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Login via Institution. Purchase instant access PDF download and unlimited online access :.
