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Amsler, Nadine, author.

Title Jesuits and matriarchs : domestic worship in early modern China / Nadine Amsler.

Publication Info.

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (x, 258 pages)
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2019).
Subject	Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- History.
	Jesuits
	Catholic women -- Religious life -- China -- History.
	Femmes catholiques -- Chine -- Vie religieuse.
	RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
	Catholic women -- Religious life
	Missions
	China
Genre/Form	History
Other Form:	Print version: Amsler, Nadine. Jesuits and matriarchs. 1st [edition]. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018 9780295743790 (DLC) 2018011124
ISBN	9780295743813 (electronic book)
	0295743816 (electronic book)
	9780295743790 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	0295743794
	9780295743790
	9780295743806 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0295743808