Introduction ---- Part I. The Limits of enclosure: Philippine Duchesne. 1. From old worlds to new --- 2. Foothold on the frontier --- 3. "We shall need Jesuits to bring them to us" ---- Part II. Saving souls: Emilie De Vialar. 4. Rehearsal in Algeria --- 5. Refuge in Tunisia and Malta --- 6. Expansion in the Ottoman Empire ---- Part III. Missionary utopians: Anne-Marie Javouhey. 7. French origins and African experiments --- 8. The Mana colony --- 9. Catholics and abolitionists ---- Conclusion.
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Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries--Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey--who crossed boundaries, both real and imagined, to evangelize far from France's shores. In so doing, they helped France reestablish a global empire after the dislocation of the Revolution and the fall of Napoleon. They also pioneered a new missionary era in which the educational, charity, and health care services provided by women became valuable tools for spreading Catholic influence across the globe. Philippine Duchesne traveled to former French territory in Missouri in 1818 to proselytize among Native Americans. Thwarted by the American policy of removing tribes even further west, she turned her attention to girls' education on the frontier. Emilie de Vialar followed French troops to Algeria after its conquest and opened missions throughout the Mediterranean basin in the mid-nineteenth century. Prevented from direct evangelization, she developed strategies and subterfuges for working among Muslim populations. Anne-Marie Javouhey evangelized among Africans in the French slave colonies, including a utopian settlement in the wilds of French Guiana. She became a rare Catholic proponent of the abolition of slavery. -- Publisher description.
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Parallel Title
Women missionaries and the revival of French empire
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Duchesne, Philippine,1769-1852.
Javouhey, Anne Marie,1779-1851.
Vialar, Emilie de.
Duchesne, Philippine, 1769-1852
Duchesne, Philippine,1769-1852.
Duchesne, Philippine.
Javouhey, Anne Marie,1779-1851.
Javouhey, Anne-Marie, 1779-1851
Javouhey, Anne-Marie.
Vialar, Emilie de, 1797-1856
Vialar, Emilie de.
Vialar, Emilie de.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Missions, French-- History-- 19th century.
Women missionaries-- France-- History-- 19th century.