The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia
：Travel Accounts of the 16th to the 21st Century
Publication subTitle ：Travel Accounts of the 16th to the 21st Century
Author： Monika Arnez> Jürgen Sarnowsky
Publisher： Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781443899222
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781443890632
Subject： K History and Geography
Keyword： Religion
Language： ENG
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Description
For people nowadays, the constant exchange of people, goods and ideas and their interaction across wide distances are a part of everyday life. However, such encounters and interregional links are by no means only a recent phenomenon, although the forms they have taken in the course of history have varied. It goes without saying that travel to distant regions was spurred by various interests, first and foremost economic and imperialist policies, which reached an initial climax around 1500 with the European expansion to the Americas and into the Indian Ocean. The motivations of European travellers for venturing to the regions of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, which are the focus of the studies presented here, were manifold, ranging from the pursuit of power, commercial exploitation, intellectual curiosity and the aspiration to proselytize among indigenous people.