Gender differences and the making of liturgical history : lifting a veil on liturgy's past / Teresa Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Teresa.

Series:

Liturgy, worship, and society.

Liturgy, worship, and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liturgics.

Sex differences.

Women in Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Berger looks at liturgy's past through the lens of gender history, understood as attending not only to the historically prominent binary of ""men"" and ""women"" but to all gender identities, including inter-sexed persons, ascetic virgins, eunuchs, and priestly men. Drawing on historical case studies, Berger explores traditional fundamentals such as liturgical space and eucharistic practice and new ways of studying the past.

Contents:

pt. 1. Gendering liturgy's past : the trouble, the task, and the tools

pt. 2. Tracing gender in liturgy's past

pt. 3. Gender, history, and liturgical tradition.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-93466-X

1-315-25464-6

1-283-12907-8

9786613129079

1-4094-2700-5

OCLC:

735597124