Every day life and the sacred : : re/configuring gender studies in religion / / edited by Angela Berlis, Anne-Marie Korte, Kune Biezeveld.

An interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand religion...

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Superior document:Studies in Theology and Religion, Volume 23
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in theology and religion ; Volume 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (407 pages) :; illustrations (some color), tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Everyday Life and the Sacred: Gender Sensitive Explorations—Introduction / Angela Berlis and Anne-Marie Korte
  • Categories
  • God in Everyday Life1 / Kune Biezeveld †
  • The Hope to Become Holy: Bringing Holiness and Everyday Life Together / Helga Kuhlmann
  • A Momentary Sacred Space: Religion, Gender, and the Sacred in Everyday Life / Maaike de Haardt
  • Time, Gender, the Sacred, and Everyday Life / Akke van der Kooi
  • Textures
  • Menstruation and the Sacred in (Post) Biblical Discourse / Dorothea Erbele-Küster
  • Holy Wit: A Good Laugh with Samson (Judges 13–16) / Willien van Wieringen
  • Hats, Heads, and Holiness in 1 Corinthians / Magda Misset-van de Weg
  • Hijab: The Female Body as Boundary / Gé Speelman
  • Powers
  • The Power of Place: Port-Royal, a Wounded Place Transfigured / Angela Berlis
  • Power of Communities: The Daily Practice of Holiness by the Sisters of the Common Life at Deventer / Mathilde van Dijk
  • The Power of Words: Sacred and Forbidden Love Magic in Medieval Ireland / Jacqueline Borsje
  • The Power of the Voice: Stabat Mater in Music and Text / Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes
  • Practices
  • Women as Ritual Experts in Sacralising Everyday Home Life / Goedroen Juchtmans
  • Peace Women: Traces of the Holy/ the Sacred in the Midst of Injustice and Violence / Riet Bons-Storm
  • Music as a Bridge: Young Women in Migrant Churches in Amsterdam / Alma Lanser
  • Signs from Heaven: Figuring the Sacred in Contemporary Miracle Stories / Anne-Marie Korte
  • Homemade Holiness: Re/Configuring Gender Studies in Religion—Epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte.