Unloving Mothers: Jesuit Knowledge Production on Abortion and Infanticide in Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries*.
The article examines the narratives created by Jesuit missionaries regarding abortions and infanticides in Japan during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It highlights how these missionaries, while acknowledging the prevalence of such practices, framed them through a European lens that often...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious History Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 230 - 245 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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