1st Edition
Missionary Men in the Early Modern World German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys
By Ulrike Strasser
Copyright 2021
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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. Focusing... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Missionary Men on the Move: Jesuits and Gender in the Early Modern World, Chapter 1. Manly Missions: Reforming European Masculinity, Converting the World, Chapter 2. Braving the Waves with Francis Xavier: Fear and the Making of Jesuit Manhood, Chapter 3. Of Missionaries, Martyrs, and Makahnas: Engendering the Marianas Mission I, Chapter 4. Martyrdom, Matrilineality, and the Virgin Mary: Engendering the Marianas Mission II, Chapter 5. Writing Women's Lives and Mapping Indigenous Spaces: Conceptual Conquest, Missionary Manhood, and Colonial Fantasy Between the Pacific and Europe, Conclusion and Epilogue, Bibliography, List of Figures, Index
Biography
Ulrike Strasser is a professor of history at the University of California San Diego. Her publications include the award-winning monograph State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State (University of Michigan Press, 2004).
