Collected essays resulting from an interdisciplinary research project.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-316) and index.

Studying Christian masculinity : an introduction / Yvonne Maria Werner -- The unrecognized piety of men : strategies and success of the Re-Masculinization Campaign around 1900 / Olaf Blaschke -- Masculinity and secularization in twentieth-century Britain / Callum G. Brown -- 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 -- Protestant mission in China. A proletarian perspective / Erik Sidenvall -- Alternative masculinity? Catholic missionaries in Scandinavia / Yvonne Maria Werner -- 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 -- 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.

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