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

• Tác giả: Susan Broomhall
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1641893671
• Thông tin xuất bản: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (140 pages) : , maps.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 372426
• Chủ đề: 1. Evangelistic work--Catholic Church; 2. Women--Religious life--Korea; 3. Women--History--Korea; 4. Évangelisation--Église catholique; 5. Femmes--Histoire--Coree

Tóm tắt

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, exper.