Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

The Power of Body and Text
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64189-366-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Gender and Power in the Premodern World

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 in the region. It analyzes the nature of that engagement, as women and men became both subjects for, and agents of, catechizing practices. As their evangelization, experience of faith, proselytizing, and suffering were recorded in mission archives, the monograph explores contact between Catholic Christianity and Korean women in particular. Broomhall demonstrates how gender ideologies shaped interactions between missionary men and Korean women, and how women’s experiences would come to be narrated, circulated, and memorialized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broomhall, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

List of Maps

Timeline of Key Events

Introduction

Chapter 1: Encounter

Chapter 2: Community

Chapter 3: Suffering

Chapter 4: Mobility

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Broomhall, Susan
Susan Broomhall leads the Gender and Women's History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University. Her research explores women's experiences and gender ideologies in shaping the early modern world.