Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

2007. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-53347-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Religion/Culture/Critique

This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Britt, B.

Cuffel, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; B.Britt & A.Cuffel PART ONE: ANCIENT CULTURES Ethnic Curses as Last Resort of the Weak in the Hebrew Bible; B.Britt Nymphs, Sexuality, and Young Girls in Ancient Greece; A.Knoblauch Hercules in a Skirt: The Paradox of Victory in the Early Roman Empire; C.Barton PART TWO: MEDIEVAL CULTURES Queer Mediterranean: Queer Sexualities in the Medieval Arab-Islamic World; S.Amer Eunuchs and Amazons: Exploring Gender Diversity in Byzantium; K.Ringrose "The Sweepings of Lamia": Transformations of the Myths of Lilith and Lamia in Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic; I.Resnick & K.F.Kitchell, Jr. Hunters and Boundaries; S.Belcher PART THREE: EARLY MODERN CULTURES The Vain, Exotic, and Erotic Feather: Dress, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England; C.Howey Soothing the Savage('s) B(r)east(s): Women's Clothing and Covering in the Discourse of Colonialism; A.Knobler Becoming Jews: Slavery, Conversion, and Upward Mobility in Colonial Suriname; A.Ben-Ur Revolution and the Family: Christian Marriage Law and European Expansion; J.Muldoon Conclusions; B.Britt & A.Cuffel

Über Autor(innen)

BRIAN BRITT is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. He is the author of and the .
ALEXANDRA CUFFEL is Assistant Professor of History at Macalester College, USA. She is the author of