TY  - BOOK
ED  - Pasture, Patrick
AB  - Since 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.
DO  - 10.11116/GCME_KAD
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004121
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100489731
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25962
KW  - Theology & Religion
KW  - Gender history
KW  - religious history
KW  - Europe
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25962/1/1004121.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25962/1/1004121.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25962/1/1004121.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25962/1/1004121.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36713
PB  - Leuven University Press
PY  - 2012-07-13
SN  - 9789058679123
TI  - Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis
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