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πCan foreign religious threats drive local state-building?
β‘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...