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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • Manuscript Primary Sources
  • Printed Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • index