Gender and sacred textures : entanglements of materiality, embodiment, and sacred texts in religious identities / edited by Marianne Schleicher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schleicher, Marianne, editor.

Series:

Comparative research on iconic and performative texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Religious aspects.

Sex role.

Gender identity--Religious aspects.

Gender identity.

Sacred books.

Religious literature.

Identification (Religion).

Physical Description:

vii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This anthology asks how the handling, use, and embodied enactments of sacred texts regulate, entangle, occlude, tolerate, or even subvert religious and gendered identities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Old Norse women's use of sacred textures in crisis situations / Emma C. Sørlie Jørgensen

"Then Queen Esther daughter of Abihail wrote" : gendered agency and ritualized writing in Jewish scriptural practice / Joanna Homrighausen

"I left my Bible at home..." : Evangelical women's bodies as biblical text in the workplace during the 1980s / Rachel E.C. Beckley

Doing piety through care : embodied enactments of the Qur'an and gender perceptions in Muslim families in contemporary Denmark / Abir Mohamad Ismail.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Gender and sacred textures

ISBN:

9781800505513

1800505515

9781800505520

1800505523

OCLC:

1518002591

Publisher Number:

90103753576

CIPO000196638