Jesuits and Matriarchs Domestic Worship in Early Modern China
In early modern China, Jesuit missionaries associated with the male elite of Confucian literati in order to proselytize more freely, but they had limited contact with women, whose ritual spaces were less accessible. Historians of Catholic evangelism have similarly directed their attention to the dev...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press
2018
2018. |
| Edición: | 1st [edition] |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424820006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Clothes make the man: the Jesuits' adoption of literati masculinity
- A kingdom of virtuous women: Jesuit descriptions of China's moral topography
- A source of creative tension: literati Jesuits and priestly duties
- Strengthening the marital bond: the Christianization of Chinese marriage
- Praying for progeny: women and Catholic spiritual remedies
- Domestic communities: women's congregations and communal piety
- Sharing genteel spirituality: the female networks of the Xus of Shanghai
- A widow and her virgins: the domestic convents of Hangzhou and Nanjing
- Fabrics of devotion: Catholic women's pious patronage
- Women and gender in global Catholicism.
