Pieties and gender

Pieties and gender [electronic resource] / edited by Lene Sjørup and Hilda Rømer Christensen. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 236 p.) - International studies in religion and society, v. 9 1573-4293 ; . - International studies in religion and society ; v. 9. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Hans Raun Iversen -- Introduction / Lene Sjørup -- Pieties and politics -- Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood -- The politics of piety and the norms of analysis / Robin May Schott -- Gender, religion, and human rights in Europe / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- Sexual abstinence education and the reassertion of the "biblical" patriarchal family unit in contemporary United States / Claire Greslé-Favier -- Pieties and methodologies -- Gender and religious mobilization : global value surveys and beyond / Clyde Wilcox -- Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjørup -- Virtuous masculinities -- In search of God's hand : on masculinity and religion / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Religious feminisation, confessionalism, and re-masculinisation in western European society, 1800-1960 / Yvonne Maria Werner -- Assessing the impact of gender ideology and sexuality in the historical pastoral and pedagogical relationship in nineteenth-century United States / Karin Erdevig Gedge -- Symbolic gender representations -- When the YWCA entered the city : the complexity of space, gender, and modernity / Hilda Rømer Christensen -- The power and ambiguity of symbols : contemporary religion and the search for a feminine divine / Jone Salomonsen.

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Sex--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Sex--Religious aspects--Islam.
Gender identity.
Feminism.


Electronic books.

BX1795.S48 / P54 2009eb

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