Pieties and gender / edited by Lene Sjrup and Hilda Rmer Christensen.

• Superior document: International studies in religion and society, v. 9
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Sjrup, Lene.; Christensen, Hilda Rmer.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in religion and society ; 9.
• Physical Description: viii, 236 p.

Table of Contents

Preface / Hans Raun Iversen -- Introduction / Lene Sjrup -- 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 Brresen -- Sexual abstinence education and the reassertion of the "biblical" patriarchal family unit in contemporary United States / Claire Gresle-Favier -- Pieties and methodologies -- Gender and religious mobilization : global value surveys and beyond / Clyde Wilcox -- Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjrup -- 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 Rmer Christensen -- The power and ambiguity of symbols : contemporary religion and the search for a feminine divine / Jone Salomonsen.