Hi Everyone, I am doing a paper on challanges of missionaries in Vietnam. Apparently, my essay lack about 3-4 pages of my own intepretation on the Journal Annal of the Propagation of Faith. Here is what my professor is looking for:
From certain accounts found in the APF, you need to come up with a thesis. Paraphrase certain events in the APF. You may use some direct quotations from the source. Throughout this section, you want to weave in the works of other scholars from your lit review to support your interpretation of the data. Or, use your own interpretation based on your own finding in the APF to challenge those scholars.
For example, if your research on the church in Vietnam, most of the secondary sources will talk about Catholicism as the tool of French imperialism. Or, Vietnamese Catholicism is French Catholicism. Your reading from APF may find similar evidence of how missionaries wanted to turn Vietnam into a French colony or into a Gallican church. Or, you may argue that colonization was never a part of their agenda at all. You then go further to develop your own interpretation of what their real agenda was. Such as, you argue that they were fanatic missionaries with a strong prophetic zeal, a bunch of racist French men of the eurocentric humanistic culture openly flaunting their contempt for local traditions and values, a group of idealistic but naive adherents of the outdated scholastic tradition, or a group of westerners but with innovative accommodating practices through arts and performance, etc. Whatever your interpretation is, you need to back your position with the data from APF.
I only need about 3-4 page more about the intepretation. The journal can be found online via google book through many volumes. I have attached my essay and some intepretation near the conclusion part, but I am too busy i have no time to complete. Please follow instruction, and use your own intepretation to write based on the journal Annal of the Propagation of Faith