Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis / Patrick Pasture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pasture, Patrick, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this †̃thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, which have reacted to the association of religion and femininity by explicitly focusing their appeal to men. The authors critically reflect upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to Christianity. By presenting case studies that adopt different gendered approaches regarding Christian, mainly Catholic discourses and practices, they capture multiple †̃feminizations' and †̃masculinizations' in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, it becomes clear that the idea that Christianity took on †̃charicteristically feminine' values and practices cannot withstand the conclusion that what is considered †̃manly' or †̃feminine' depends on time, place, and context, and on the reasons why gendered metaphors are used.

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.

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Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102274

ISBN:

9789058679123

Publisher Number:

10.11116/GCME_KAD

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access