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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Arc Humanities Press,
2023.
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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