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Missionary men in the early modern world : German Jesuits and pacific journeys
- Title
- Missionary men in the early modern world : German Jesuits and pacific journeys / Ulrike Strasser.
- Author
- Strasser, Ulrike, 1964-
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- 274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties and masculine mimesis in the formation of the Jesuit missions, as well as the significance of patriarchal dynamics. Focussing on previously neglected German figures, Strasser shows how stories of exemplary male behavior circulated across national boundaries, directing the hearts and feet of men throughout Europe towards Jesuit missions in faraway lands. The sixteenth-century Iberian exemplars of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, disseminated in print and visual media, inspired late seventeenth-century Jesuits from German-speaking lands to bring Catholicism and European gender norms to the Spanish-controlled Pacific. As Strasser demonstrates, the age of global missions hinged on the reproduction of missionary manhood in print and real life.
- Series Statement
- Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 12.
- Alternative Title
- German Jesuits and pacific journeys
- Subject
- Jesuits > Missions > History > 17th century
- Jesuits > Mariana Islands > History > 17th century
- Jesuits
- 1500-1599
- Masculinity > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History > 16th century
- Masculinity > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History > 17th century
- Missions
- Mariana Islands > Missions > History > 17th century
- Mariana Islands > Social life and customs > History > 17th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-268) and index.
- Contents
- Missionary men on the move : Jesuits and gender in the early modern world -- 1. Manly missions : reforming European masculinity, converting the world -- 2. Braving the waves with Francis Xavier : fear and the making of Jesuit manhood -- 3. Of missionaries, martyrs, and makahnas : engendering the Marianas Mission, part I -- 4. Martyrdom, matrilineality, and the Virgin Mary : engendering the Marianas Mission, part II -- 5. Writing women's lives and mapping indigenous spaces : conceptual conquest, missionary manhood, and colonial fantasy between the Pacific and Europe.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-270
- ISBN
- 9789462986305
- 9462986304
- OCLC
- 1182849957
- Author
- Strasser, Ulrike, 1964- author.
- Title
- Missionary men in the early modern world : German Jesuits and pacific journeys / Ulrike Strasser.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 12Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 12.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-268) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1599
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-270