Pieties and gender / edited by Lene Sjørup and Hilda Rømer Christensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sjørup, Lene.

Christensen, Hilda Rømer.

Series:

International studies in religion and society ; v. 9.

International studies in religion and society, 1573-4293 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Sex.

Sex--Religious aspects--Islam.

Gender identity.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Contents:

Preface / Hans Raun Iversen

Introduction / Lene Sjørup

Pieties and politics

Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood

The politics of piety and the norms of analysis / Robin May Schott

Gender, religion, and human rights in Europe / Kari Elisabeth Børresen

Sexual abstinence education and the reassertion of the "biblical" patriarchal family unit in contemporary United States / Claire Greslé-Favier

Pieties and methodologies

Gender and religious mobilization : global value surveys and beyond / Clyde Wilcox

Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjørup

Virtuous masculinities

In search of God's hand : on masculinity and religion / Thomas Blom Hansen

Religious feminisation, confessionalism, and re-masculinisation in western European society, 1800-1960 / Yvonne Maria Werner

Assessing the impact of gender ideology and sexuality in the historical pastoral and pedagogical relationship in nineteenth-century United States / Karin Erdevig Gedge

Symbolic gender representations

When the YWCA entered the city : the complexity of space, gender, and modernity / Hilda Rømer Christensen

The power and ambiguity of symbols : contemporary religion and the search for a feminine divine / Jone Salomonsen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004178267

9004178260

OCLC:

401164555