BEYOND THE FEMINIZATION THESIS: GENDERING THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

The origin of this book lies in a collective research project aimed at developing a gender perspective on socio-religious history. The project focused on Belgium, a country that was relatively understudied - although an extensive literature exists on the social and political aspects of Christendom i...

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1. Verfasser:	PATRICK PASTURE
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied sociology Behavioral sciences Catholicism Christianity Churches Diseases Doctrinal theology Endocrine system diseases Femininity Feminization Gender identity Gender studies Health sciences Human populations Masculinity Medical conditions Men Persons Piety Political ideologies Political philosophy Political science Population studies Protestantism Religion Sanctity Secularism Secularization Social sciences Sociology Sociology of religion Spiritual belief systems Systematic theology Theology
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Zusammenfassung:	The origin of this book lies in a collective research project aimed at developing a gender perspective on socio-religious history. The project focused on Belgium, a country that was relatively understudied - although an extensive literature exists on the social and political aspects of Christendom in Belgium, gender was (and arguably still is) hardly used as a research perspective¹ - but particularly interesting because of the dominant position of Catholicism and the country’s geographical position between Germany and France. At the time, the project was conceived in the perspective of the ‘feminization thesis’ that seemed to be becoming an alternative