Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World : The Power of Body and Text

This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe's late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profoundly volatile period in East Asian history during which political, cultural, and social disruption created opportunities for new interactions...

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Main Author: Broomhall, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Front matter -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on The Text -- List of maps -- Timeline of Key Events -- Body -- Introduction -- The Power of the Body and the Text -- Structure -- Chapter 1. Encounter -- The Joseon Kingdom: "The Treasure Kept for the Man who Most Merits It" -- Korean Women's Bodies and Kirishitan Masculine Performance -- "Fruit Well Taken from This War": Evangelizing Koreans in Japan -- Gender and Mission Strategy -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2. Community 
505 0 |a Becoming Christian: Gender, the Body, and Affectivity -- Articulating Christian Belonging -- Contributing to the Christian Community -- Belonging and the Christian Orders -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Suffering -- Korean Women and Psychic Violence -- The Threat of Sexual Violence -- Physical Suffering as the Vulnerable Christ -- Fatal Violence -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Mobility -- Men, Mobility, and Missions to Joseon -- Exile as Gendered Opportunity -- Joseon via China: Knowledge Exchanges Between Learned Men -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Back matter -- Bibliography 
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