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Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

The Power of Body and Text

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt181 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGender and Power in the Premodern World
Antal sidor140
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641893664

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Susan Broomhall’s Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World unearths the rare experience of Koreans who engaged with Catholic missions in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—the period considered one of the most chaotic times in Korean history, dotted with political upheavals and wars with Japan (1592–1598) and China (1627 and 1636). These tumultuous wartime experiences, in turn, offered an unexpected haven for Koreans who entered the global Christian community and whose lives were subsequently documented in mission archives. Meticulously weaving together rich and complex missionary accounts, this book examines how Jesuit missionaries viewed Korean women as both vulnerable and key figures in their evangelizing efforts. It opens a new window not only onto the lives and experiences of Koreans as recorded, circulated, and commemorated in mission archives but also on how “gender ideologies” influenced “interactions between missionary men and Korean women” (2).[...][T]his book brings to light fresh perspectives on Korean women and men across social strata, through interactions that transcended the gender boundaries prescribed by Confucian norms in Chosŏn society. By tracing the intersections of gender, faith, and cultural identity, it offers nuanced insights and valuable resources for scholars of Korean history, religion, and cross-cultural exchange in early modern East Asia and beyond.