02807nam 2200361 n 450 991088798330332120230511205325.0(CKB)5470000000567098(NjHacI)995470000000567098(EXLCZ)99547000000056709820230511d2020 uu 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMissionary Men in the Early Modern World German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys /Ulrike StrasserAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,2020.1 online resource (274 pages)94-6298-630-4 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.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.Missionary Men in the Early Modern World MissionariesMissionaries.266.00922Strasser Ulrike1217024NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910887983303321Missionary Men in the Early Modern World2814180UNINA