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Beyond the feminization thesis : gender and Christianity in modern Europe / Patrick Pasture ... [and others], eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 10.
- KADOC studies on religion, culture and society ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theological anthropology--Christianity.
- Theological anthropology.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--Case studies.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Case studies.
- Masculinity--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Masculinity.
- Masculinity--Europe--Religious aspects.
- Women--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Women.
- Women--Europe--Religious aspects.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Gender and Christianity in modern Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Since the 1970s the narrative of a feminization of Christianity became a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom, in Protestant as well as in Catholic contexts. However, the concepts raises some serious issues. In this book several case studies adopt different gendered approaches with regard to Christian, mainly Catholic discourses and practices in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. They shift the focus to men and masculinity, and critically reflect on the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization.
- The least one can conclude is that there were, in different respects, 'multiple feminizations' as well as 'multiple masculinizations'. What is considered manly or feminine all depends on time, place and context, and on the reason why gendered metaphors are used. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Beyond the feminization thesis.: Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Patrick Pasture Pasture, Patrick 7
- The Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century Germany / Bernhard Schneider Schneider, Bernhard 35
- Celibate or married priests? Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela, Berlis Berlis, Angela, 57
- The Cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? A psycho-historical hypothesis / Jan Art Art, Jan 73
- The 'Sportsman' and the 'Muscular Christian'. Rival ideals in nineteenth-century England / Hugh McLeod McLeod, Hugh 85
- Lions and lambs at the same time! Belgian Zouave stories and examples of religious masculinity / Thomas Buerman Buerman, Thomas 107
- 'From that moment on, I was a man!'. Images of the Catholic male in the Sacred Heart devotion / Tine Van Osselaer Osselaer, Tine Van 121
- Repertoires of Catholic manliness in the Netherlands (1850-1940). A case study of the Dutch Dominicans / Marit Monteiro Monteiro, Marit 137
- The boys of Saint Dominic's.: Catholic boys' culture at a minor seminary in interwar Holland / Marieke Smulders Smulders, Marieke 157
- Female soldiers and the battle for God.: Gender ambiguities and a Dutch Catholic conversion movement, 1921-1942 / Marjet Derks Derks, Marjet 173
- A feminized Church?: German Catholic women, piety, and domesticity, 1918-1938 / Michael E. O'Sullivan O'Sullivan, Michael E. 191.
- Notes:
- Collected essays.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9058679128
- 9789058679123
- OCLC:
- 794706233
- Publisher Number:
- 99951227961
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