GENDER & CHRISTIANITY IN MODER

01. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-5867-912-3
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society

Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity
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, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their appeal to men. In this book 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 with regard to Christian, mainly Catholic discourses and practices, the authors 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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pasture, Patrick

Art, Jan

Buerman, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Patrick Pasture
Beyond the feminization thesis.
Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Bernhard Schneider
The Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century Germany

Angela Berlis
Celibate or married priests?
Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism

Jan Art
The Cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? A psycho-historical hypothesis

Hugh McLeod
The 'Sportsman' and the 'Muscular Christian'.
Rival ideals in nineteenth-century England

Thomas Buerman
Lions and lambs at the same time!
Belgian Zouave stories and examples of religious masculinity

Tine Van Osselaer
'From that moment on, I was a man!'.
Images of the Catholic male in the Sacred Heart devotion

Marit Monteiro
Repertoires of Catholic manliness in the Netherlands (1850-1940).
A case study of the Dutch Dominicans

Marieke Smulders
The boys of Saint Dominic 's.
Catholic boys' culture at a minor seminary in interwar Holland

Marjet Derks
Female soldiers and the battle for God.
Gender ambiguities and a Dutch Catholic conversion movement, 1921-1942

Michael E. O'Sullivan
A feminized Church?
German Catholic women, piety, and domesticity, 1918-1938

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pasture, Patrick
Patrick Pasture is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for European Studies at KU Leuven.

Art, Jan
Jan Art retired as professor of history at the University of Ghent in 2010. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century cultural and religious history, social science methodology in history, and psychohistory.