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245 0 0 _aGender and Christianity in Modern Europe
_bBeyond the Feminization Thesis /
_cPatrick Pasture.
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024 8 _a10.11116/GCME_KAD
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700 1 _aPasture, Patrick
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264 1 _bLeuven University Press,
300 _a1 online resource (242 p.)
520 _aSince 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, which have reacted to the association of religion and femininity by explicitly focusing their appeal to men. 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 regarding Christian, mainly Catholic discourses and practices, they 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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590 _aKU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
650 7 _aReligion / Christian Church / History
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650 0 _aReligion
655 0 _aElectronic books.
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