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Gender at stake critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology.

Gender at stake critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology

This book chapter is reproduced with permission from the publisher. The full details of the publication can be found here: http://www.atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/Anarchisme-et-religion.html . This text is translated from the chapter "Anarchism and Religion ", originally published in the coordinated collective work by Nathan Jun: Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, Boston, Brill, 2017. The Repository record can be found here: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18221 ; Presque toujours, l'anarchisme est anticlérical, et il est le plus souvent athée. Pourtant, la rencontre de la religion et de l'anarchisme est plus complexe qu'on ne le présume en général. Ces dernières années en particulier, une grande variété d'analyses ont éclos à l'intersection de l'anarchisme et des sciences de la religion. Les interactions entre la religion et l'anarchisme sont diverses : il arrive que les anarchistes reviennent sur leur appréciation de la religion ; parfois, des chercheurs religieux formulent une théologie en dialogue avec des énoncés anarchistes ; on se concentre quelquefois sur la manière qu'ont certains anarchistes d'aborder la religion ; d'autres fois ce sont les textes religieux qui sont interprétés dans le sens d'une politique anarchiste. La rencontre entre anarchisme et religion peut donc se focaliser sur différents aspects de l'un ou de l'autre, et impliquer des approches, des méthodologies et des tonalités d'enquête très variées. Ce texte propose une cartographie des manières qu'ont l'anarchisme et la religion de se croiser à partir de quatre grandes catégories : les différends classiques opposant l'anarchisme à la religion et à ses institutions ; les interprétations anarchistes des personnages et des textes fondateurs de la religion ; la « théologie » anarchiste, distincte de l'exégèse scripturale ; et les études historiques consacrées à des penseurs, des communautés et des mouvements spécifiques se reconnaissant à la fois dans l'anarchisme et dans la religion.