Pieties and gender / edited by Lene Sjrup and Hilda Rmer Christensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sjrup, Lene.

Christensen, Hilda Rmer.

Series:

International studies in religion and society ; 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:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the relations between pieties and politics, pieties and methodologies, virtuous masculinities, and symbolic gender representations. Several articles discuss highly controversial questions: Muslim piety, religion in the European Union between the Vatican and the Muslim populations, the religiously motivated abstinence policies of the US. Furthermore, there is an interesting section about religious masculinities in a historical and contemporary perspective.

Contents:

Preface / Hans Raun Iversen

Introduction / Lene Sjrup

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 Brresen

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

Pieties and methodologies

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

Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjrup

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 Rmer Christensen

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-60614-X

9786612606144

90-474-4061-7

OCLC:

607555871

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004178267.i-236 DOI