CHRISTIAN MASCULINITY

01. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-5867-873-7
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society

In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today's scholars talk about a feminisation of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society?
This is the starting point for the research presented in Christian Masculinity. Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Christian faith as priests, missionaries, and laymen, as well as ideas and reflections on Christian masculinity in media, fiction, and correspondence of various kinds. Some men engaged in social and missionary work, or strove to harness the masculine combative spirit to Christian ends, while others were eager to show the male character of Christian virtues. This book not only illustrates the importance of religion for the understanding of gender construction, but also the need to take into consideration confessional and institutional aspects of religious identity.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Werner, Yvonne Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Studying Christian masculinity. An introduction
Yvonne Maria Werner
Part I
Key Concepts and theoretical Perspectives
The unrecognised piety of men.
Strategies and success of the re-masculinisation campaign around 1900
Olaf Blaschke
Masculinity and secularisation in twentieth-century Britain
Callum G. Brown
Part II
Visions and Ideals of Christian Manhood
Heroic men and Christian ideals
Tine Van Osselaer and Alexander Maurits
Masculinity, memory, and oblivion in the Dutch Dominican Province, 1930-1950
Marit Monteiro
The man in the clergyman. Swedish priest obituaries, 1905-1937
Anna Prestjan
Crises of faith and the making of Christian masculinities at the turn of the twentieth century
David Tjeder
Part III
Missionary Masculinity
Protestant mission in China. A proletarian perspective
Erik Sidenvall
Alternative masculinity? Catholic missionaries in Scandinavia
Yvonne Maria Werner
Part IV
Fostering Christian Men
The making of Christian men.
An evangelical mission to the Swedish army, c. 1900-1920
Elin Malmer
Danish folk high school and the creation of a new Danish man
Nanna Damsholt
Part V
Transgressing Gender Boundaries
Literary transgressions of masculinity and religion
Inger Littberger Caisou-Rousseau
A manly queen with feminine charm.
Intersectional perspectives on gender
Anders Jarlert
The new Catholic feminism.
Tradition and renewal in Catholic gender theology
Gösta Hallonsten
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Colophon

Über Autor(innen)

Werner, Yvonne Maria
Yvonne Maria Werner is Professor at the Department of History at the Lund University.