Contents
Preface to the ASM SeriesPrefaceMapsAbbreviations and Acronyms of Journals, Annuals, and Organizations
Part I: They Came by Sea: The Return of the West (1500–1800)
Chapter 1: India (1500–1700): St. Thomas or St. Peter
The St. Thomas (Mar Thoma) Christians and the PortugueseGolden Goa and the Roman CatholicsFrancis Xavier and the JesuitsFriction between Thomas Christians and the MissionsThe Synod of Diamper (1599)The Propaganda (or Propaganda Fide)The Coonen (Koonan) CrossThe Drift from Nestorian to Jacobite ConnectionsCatholic Expansion beyond the Malabar CoastMission to Muslims in North India
Chapter 2: The Buddhist Kingdoms of the South (1505–1800):Portuguese Ceylon, Burma, Vietnam, Siam
Portugal and the Buddhist Island of Ceylon (1505–1656)Beginnings of Christian Mission (1543–1551)A Christian King, Church Growth, and Religious ReactionThe Portuguese in Decline (1591–1656)Burma: Violence and Resistance (1554–1800)Alexander de Rhodes: Beginnings in Vietnam (Tonkin and Annam, 1583– 1802)The French Enter Vietnam (1664–1802)Siam (Thailand): A Tenuous Base for Mission (1553–1769)
Chronology of Buddhist South Asia ( (1500–1800))
Chapter 3: The Muslim Kingdoms of Southeast Asia (1500–1800):Portuguese in Malaysia and the Spice Islands (Indonesia)
Malacca, Gateway to East Asia (1511–1663)The Spice Islands (Indonesian Archipelago, 1511–1601)Tabarija, the First Christian KingFrancis Xavier in the MoluccasMission in the Islands after Xavier
Chapter 4: The “Christian Century” in Japan
Xavier, Jesuits, and Japanese Patronage (1551–1587)The Japan Mission after Xavier (1552–1579)Reforms of Valignano in the Nobunaga Shogunate (1571–1582)Valignano as “Missiologist”Backlash: The Age of PersecutionRestoration Gives Way to Persecution: Ieyasu (1598–1614)The First Protestants (1600)The Great Persecution: The Beginning of the EndSilence (1640–1800)Chronology of Events
Chapter 5: Once More to China: “Missionaries and Mandarins”
First Contacts in MacaoMatteo Ricci and the Entry into China (1583–1610)The Three Pillars of the Chinese ChurchThe Jesuits in Beijing to the Fall of the Ming Dynasty (1610–1644)The Fall of the Ming Dynasty (1644)Christianity under the Manchu (Ch’ing, or Qing) DynastyThe Rites Controversy (1636–1692): Disunity in the MissionThe Controversy Continued (1693–1742): Church vs. StateThe Mission of De Tournon (1704–1710)Decline and Persecution (1742–1800)The Dissolution of the Jesuits (1773)
Chapter 6: Korea (1593–1800): The Hermit Kingdom
De Cespedes and the Japanese InvasionChristian Influences from ChinaThe Dutch Come to Korea
Chapter 7: The Spaniards in the Philippines (1521–1800)
Magellan and the “Voyage around the World”

The First Missions (1565–1578)“The Golden Years” (1578–1609)Setbacks and Friction in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesEfforts to Train a Filipino ClergySuppression of the Jesuits
Chapter 8: Catholic Decline and Recovery (1792–1850)
Failure and Discouragement in India: Abbé DuboisWorldwide Catholic DeclineMore Persecution in ChinaBeginnings of Recovery and RevivalRecovery in Catholic EuropeRecovery in Asia
Chapter 9: West Asia under the Turks and Persians (1500–1800)
The Nestorians on the Turko-Persian BordersThe Sixteenth-Century Nestorian SchismDecline of the Jacobite (Monophysite) Base on the Mediterranean CoastCatholic Missions in West AsiaSurvival of the Armenian Church (1500–1800)Christians in the Middle East at the End of the Eighteenth CenturyA Chronology of West Asia (1405–1834)
Part II: The Protestants Reach Asia (1600–1800)
Chapter 10: The First Protestants: The Dutch Reach Indonesia,Formosa, and Ceylon
Indonesia: Capitalist Traders, Calvinist ChaplainsFormosa (Taiwan): Gateway to China? (1642–1661)The Dutch Period in Ceylon (1656–1796)
Chapter 11: Eighteenth-Century India (1708–1792): Danish Kings,German Pietists, and English Chaplains
The First English ChaplainsThe Danish-Halle Mission to Tranquebar (1706–1846)“Hidden Seed”: The Moravians in India (1760–1803)The English “Evangelical Chaplains”
Part III: “The Great Century” (1784–1860)
SECTION ONE:

PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS IN COMPETITIONChapter 12: A Fresh Start in India (1792–1860): Carey and theProtestants
Carey: The Man and the ChallengeCarey in India: Opposition and TrialsSerampore: The Trio and the CovenantThe First ConvertsTranslation, Social Reform, and Education for IndiaThe Charter of 1813: Freedom for Christian Missions in IndiaAlexander Duff and Christian Education for IndiaChurch Growth: Indian Protestantism in Mid-CenturyChronology (1792–1859)
Chapter 13: The Door to China Opens Again (1807–1860)
Robert Morrison and China (1807–1834)The Ultra-Ganges MissionLiang Fa and the Beginnings of Indigenous EvangelismThe Growth of Protestant Missions to the Chinese (1817–1840)Gützlaff, a Continental European Protestant Pioneer The Opium Wars (1839–1844, 1856–1860)The Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)
Chapter 14: The Catholic Century in Korea (1784–1886): The Martyrs
The Korean InitiativeThe Founding of the Catholic Church in Korea (1792–1801)The First Foreign Missionary and the Persecution of 1801Sixty-Five Years of PersecutionThe Great Persecution of 1866–1867 and Catholic Survival
Chapter 15: Burma (1813–1850): Protestant Pioneers and DisruptedCatholics
Adoniram Judson and Baptist Beginnings (1813–1824)The First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826)The Rise of the Burma Baptist Church (1826–1860)“The Karen Apostle” and Expanding Growth (1827–1860)The First Baptist Missionary Convention (1853)Catholics in Burma
Chapter 16: Ceylon under British Rule (1796–1860)
Transition: Dutch to British, Reformed to AnglicanCatholic Survival and Schism
Protestant Missions: Recession and Reinforcements (1795–1860)Buddhist Reaction and RevivalProtestant Advances in Education and CooperationCeylon at Mid-Century
Chapter 17: Southeast Asia from Thailand to Vietnam (1800–1860)
Siam (1800–1860)Progress in the SouthMalaysia and Singapore (1800–1860)Malaysia ChronologyVietnam (1800–1860)
Chapter 18: Indonesia (1800–1860)
Dutch ColonialismThe Conversion of the BataksThe Dutch Reformed Churches of the IslandsJoseph Kam in the MoluccasIndonesia Chronology (1797–1892)
Chapter 19: The West and the Ancient Churches of the Middle East(1800–1860)
The Nestorians of Persia (1800–1870)The Nestorian-Protestant Schism (1846–1870)Turkey (West Asia)The ArmeniansThe MaronitesProtestants in Syria
SECTION TWO:MISSIONS MATURE AND LOCAL CHURCHES GROWChapter 20: Calamity in the Middle East (1860–1900)
The Decline of the TurksThe “Mountain Nestorians” (1860–1900)The Armenians and Their MassacreLebanon
Chapter 21: Advance in India (1860–1900)
The Syrian Thomas Christians of Kerala: Strife and DivisionThe Reform Movement and the Mar Thoma Syrian ChurchThe Continuing Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobites)Mass Movements: Outreach to Outcastes (Dalits) and Tribals
Advance to the Northeast: Mission to the TribesRapid Catholic Growth in Chota Nagpur Mission Cooperation, Division, and Christian UnityDeveloping a National Christian LeadershipWomen in MissionClouds on the Horizon: Growing Hindu Reaction and Missionary DoubtsAn Overview of Christianity in India, 1850–1900India Chronology (1857–1900)
Chapter 22: China's Christians at the Empire's End (1860–1900)
Hudson Taylor and the China Inland MissionThe Roman Catholic RecoveryProtestants Progress toward National InfluenceThe Protestant Christian Educational Network A Chinese Church for the ChineseThe Chinese BacklashThe Boxer Rebellion of 1899–1901
Chapter 23: Christianity Reappears in Japan (1859–1900)
The Catholic RecoveryThe Beginnings of Protestant Missions (1853–1872)The Russian Orthodox Church in JapanThe Meiji Restoration (1868–1900)Mission Activities during the Period of Tolerance (1872–1890)Japanese Christians Take the InitiativeWomen in MissionThe Identification of Christianity with Western CivilizationThe Period of Reaction (1890–1900)
Chapter 24: Protestants and New Beginnings in Korea (1865–1905)
Robert J. Thomas, the First Protestant Martyr Earlier Protestant Attempts to Enter KoreaThe Foreign Wars; Korea Loses Its IndependenceBeginnings of Massive Church GrowthKorean Leadership Training for the MinistryFirst Steps from Mission Council to Korean ChurchInterdenominational Cooperation
Chapter 25: The Philippines (1860–1906)
The Spanish Friars under PressureCatholics under the AmericansProtestant Missions and American Occupation

The Rise of the Independent Philippine ChurchesPhilippines Chronology (1860–1915)
Chapter 26: Burma and Ceylon (1850–1900)
Burma: Colonialism, Mission, and the TribesBurma Chronology (1824–1900)British Ceylon (1850–1900)
Chapter 27: Siam, Malaysia, and Vietnam (1860–1900)
Siam (Thailand), Land of the FreeMalaysia and Singapore: Colonialism, Islam, and the ChurchIndo-China (Annam and Tonkin—Vietnam)
Chapter 28: Indonesia (1860–1900)
Protestant Renewal in a Dutch ColonySchism and Friction within Protestant MissionsImpact on SocietyRoman Catholic MissionsConclusion
Epilogue: Thinking Back and Looking Ahead
Thinking Back Roman Catholic MissionsLooking Ahead: The Nineteenth Century as Prologue to the PresentBibliography

This second volume of Samuel Moffett's acclaimed History of Christianity in Asia illustrates the advance of the modern missionary movement in the continent of its birth. Like the first volume, it makes available immense research in a readable and engaging narrative. Moffett brings into dramatic relief events that illustrate both the broad patterns and the vital details of the spread of Christianity on a continent.