Pieties and gender / edited by Lene Sjørup and Hilda Rømer Christensen.

• Superior document: International studies in religion and society, v. 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Sjørup, Lene.; Christensen, Hilda Rømer.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in religion and society ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the relations between pieties and politics, pieties and methodol...

Table of Contents

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