Pieties and gender
By: edited by Lene Sjorup and Hilda Romer Christensen.
Contributors: Sjørup, Lene.; Christensen, Hilda Rømer.
Series: International studies in religion and society -- v. 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004178267
Subjects: Sex -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Gender identity; Feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Hans Raun Iversen; title: Introduction / Lene Sjorup; title: Part I: Pieties and politics; title: Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood; title: The politics of piety and the norms of analysis / Robin May Schott; title: Gender, religion, and human rights in Europe / Kari Elisabeth Borresen; title: Sexual abstinence education and the reassertion of the "biblical" patriarchal family unit in contemporary United States / Claire Gresle-Favier; title: Part II: Pieties and methodologies; title: Gender and religious mobilization : global value surveys and beyond / Clyde Wilcox; title: Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjorup; title: Part III: Virtuous masculinities; title: In search of God's hand : on masculinity and religion / Thomas Blom Hansen; title: Religious feminisation, confessionalism, and re-masculinisation in western European society, 1800-1960 / Yvonne Maria Werner; title: Assessing the impact of gender ideology and sexuality in the historical pastoral and pedagogical relationship in nineteenth-century United States / Karin Erdevig Gedge; title: Part IV: Symbolic gender representations; title: When the YWCA entered the city : the complexity of space, gender, and modernity / Hilda Romer Christensen; title: The power and ambiguity of symbols : contemporary religion and the search for a feminine divine / Jone Salomonsen.