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

by Susan Broomhall

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641893664
• ISBN13: 9781641893664
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
• Length: 140 Pages