“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth-Century Southern Japan

This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth-century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of...

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Main Author: O'Leary, Jessica ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Journal of religious history
Year: 2025, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 192-209
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