Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History

© 2014 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History

Editor(s): Joanna de Groot, Sue Morgan

Published Online: 4 APR 2014 08:36PM EST

Print ISBN: 9781118833766

Online ISBN: 9781118833926

DOI: 10.1002/9781118833926

About this Book

Sex, Gender and the Sacred presents a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that explore the interlocking narratives of religion and gender encompassing 4,000 years of history. 

  • Contains readings relating to sex and religion that encompass 4,000 years of gender history
  • Features new research in religion and gender across diverse cultures, periods, and religious traditions
  • Presents multi-faith and multi-disciplinary perspectives with significant comparative potential
  • Offers original theories and concepts relating to gender, religion, and sexuality
  • Includes innovative interpretations of the connections between visual, verbal, and material aspects of particular religious traditions

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–ix)

    1. Chapter 0

      Introduction: Beyond the ‘Religious Turn’? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History (pages 1–28)

      Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan

  3. Part I: Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges

    1. Chapter 1

      Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin (pages 29–50)

      Carolyn E. Watson

    2. Chapter 2

      Liberal Religion and the ‘Woman Question’ between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women's Journal (pages 51–66)

      Clare Midgley

    3. Chapter 3

      Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannüren zhuan (pages 67–82)

      Yuet Keung Lo

    4. Chapter 4

      ‘All of Their Customs are Daughters of Their Religion’: Baptists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920s–present (pages 83–103)

      Kathleen M. McIntyre

    5. Chapter 5

      Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’: Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800–60 (pages 104–116)

      Daniel J. R. Grey

  4. Part II: Religion, Embodiment and Subjectivity

    1. Chapter 6

      Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies: A Historiographical Overview (pages 117–134)

      Érica Couto-Ferreira and Agnès Garcia-Ventura

    2. Chapter 7

      Lamentation Motifs in Medieval Hagiography (pages 135–149)

      Anne E. Bailey

    3. Chapter 8

      Architecture of Desire: Mediating the Female Gaze in the Medieval English Anchorhold (pages 150–169)

      Michelle M. Sauer

    4. Chapter 9

      The Alluring Beauty of a Leonardesque Ideal: Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan (pages 170–194)

      Maya Corry

    5. Chapter 10

      ‘Deaf to the Word’: Gender, Deafness and Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (pages 195–208)

      Esme Cleall

  5. Part III: Religion, Gender and Sexuality

    1. Chapter 11

      The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: ‘Abortion Miracles’ in Early Medieval Saints’ Lives (pages 209–224)

      Zubin Mistry

    2. Chapter 12

      ‘Give Me Chastity’: Masculinity and Attitudes to Chastity and Celibacy in the Middle Ages (pages 225–240)

      Pat Cullum

    3. Chapter 13

      Common Soldiers, Same-Sex Love and Religion in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Army (pages 241–255)

      Susan Gane

    4. Chapter 14

      ‘Dark Ecstasies’: Sex, Mysticism and Psychology in Early Twentieth-Century England (pages 256–271)

      Joy Dixon

    5. Chapter 15

      Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain (pages 272–284)

      Mary Vincent

  6. Part IV: Gender, Religion and Political Activity

    1. Chapter 16

      Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century South India (pages 285–303)

      Wilson Chacko Jacob

    2. Chapter 17

      ‘Fatherland, Religion, Family’: Exploring the History of a Slogan in Greece, 1880–1930 (pages 304–314)

      Effi Gazi

    3. Chapter 18

      The More Things Change: Debating Gender and Religion in India's Hindu Laws, 1920–2006 (pages 315–328)

      Rina Verma Williams

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      Index (pages 329–337)

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