Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis / / Patrick Pasture ... [et al.], eds.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pasture, Patrick, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, 2012.; ©2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Notes: Collected essays.

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, and the churches themselves have reacted to t...

Table of Contents

• Beyond the Feminization Thesis Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe; Editorial Board; Contents; Beyond the Feminization Thesis - Gendering the History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; The Original Formulations of the Feminization Thesis; A Critical Discussion; Fiction 1: What Feminization?; Fiction 2: Feminization and Secularization; Fiction 3: Feminization Empowering?; Masculinity, Manliness and Masculinization ; Female Presence, Masculine Power?; Masculine Spaces, Identities, Strategies ; Structure of the Book ; Conclusions and Perspectives
• The Catholic Poor Relief Discourse and the Feminization of the Caritas in Early Nineteenth-Century GermanyBrief Notes on the Feminization Thesis; The Catholic Poverty Discourse and the Feminization of the Caritas; The Poor Relief Situation in Germany in the Nineteenth Century and The Role of The Catholic Church; Discourses on Poverty, Sickness and The Role of Women; Sick Care and The Female Gender Character; The Sisters of Charity and The Female Gender Character; Sisters of Charity as an Ideal of Care and Secular 'Paid Caretakers'as Antitype; Sisters of Charity and Deaconesses in Competition
• Perception of Female Poverty?Feminization of Caritas? A Glance at The Practice; Feminization of Caritas? An Interim Result; Celibate or Married Priests? - Polemical Gender Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism; The Old Catholic Movement and The Discussion About Clerical Celibacy; The Polemical Gender Debate in The Old Catholic/ Roman Catholic Conflict; The Masculinity Discourse and Perception of The Priesthood; Six Theses and Suggestions for Further Research
• The Cult of the Virgin Mary, or the Feminization of the Male Element in the Roman Catholic Church? - A Psycho-Historical Hypothesis Ultramontanization = Italianization = Feminization?; Clericalization = Feminization?; Conclusion; The 'Sportsman' and the 'Muscular Christian' - Rival Ideals in Nineteenth-Century England; The Gentleman Sportsman; The Popular Sportsman; The Christian Sportsman; The Professional Sportsman; The Secular Sportsman and The Muscular Christian; Lions and Lambs at the Same Time! - Belgian Zouave Stories and Examples of Religious Masculinity
• Pontifical Zouaves as Ideal CatholicsZouave Stories Presenting Religious Masculinity; Zouave Stories and The Feminization of Religion; 'From That Moment on, I Was a Man!' - Images of The Catholic Male in the Sacred Heart Devotion; Origins; A 'men's' Movement; Masculine and Catholic Identity; 'Masculine' Character; Fe/male Movement; Incorporation of a Masculine Catholicism?; Masculinization?; Repertoires of Catholic manliness in The Netherlands (1850-1940) - A Case Study of The Dutch Dominicans; Christian Manliness Differentiated; Constructions of Dominican Identity
• Clerical Leadership of The Catholic Subculture