Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China

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dc.contributor.authorAmsler, Nadine
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-24T17:56:52Z
dc.date.available2021-03-24T17:56:52Z
dc.date.copyright2018
dc.date.issued2018-11-20
dc.description"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 devotional practices of men, neglecting the interior spaces in Chinese households where women worshipped and undertook the transmission of Catholicism to family members and friends. Nadine Amsler’s investigation brings the domestic and devotional practices of women into sharp focus, uncovering a rich body of evidence that demonstrates how Chinese households functioned as sites of evangelization, religious conflict, and indigenization of Christianity. The resulting exploration of gendered realms in seventeenth-century China reveals networks of religious sociability and ritual communities among women as well as women’s remarkable acts of private piety. Amsler’s exhaustive archival research and attention to material culture reveals new insights about women’s agency and domestic activities, illuminating areas of Chinese and Catholic history that have remained obscure, if not entirely invisible, for far too long."
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, and the Swiss National Science Foundation
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dc.identifier10.6069/9780295743813
dc.identifier.other9780295743813
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/46900
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Washington Press
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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dc.subject.classificationREL105000
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dc.titleJesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China
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