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For all Southeast Asianist scholars, please consider submitting a paper proposal for SEAREG at UC-San Diego in December. dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-thema...

👑Can foreign religious threats drive local state-building? ➡Focusing on late 16th-century Japan, M. Wang, @austin-mitchell.bsky.social & W. Yin show that areas with Catholic churches were more likely to be surveyed in response to missionary threats www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Centralized state-building occurs in response to local security threats. In historical Japan, Catholic churches represented the threat of European empires. New research at @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...