Suchergebnisse

Religion, family and domesticity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : an introduction / Tine Van Osselaer -- Masculinity, religiousness and the domestic sphere in the German-speaking world around 1900 / Bernhard Schneider -- The household of the pastor : an exponent of Christian manliness / Alexander Maurits -- Gender, family life and religious identity in nineteenth-century ultramontane aristocracy : the example of the House of Arenberg / Bertrand Goujon -- Making the charitable man : Catholic masculinities in nineteenth-century France / Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée -- Stigmatic cults and pilgrimage : the convergence of private and public faith / Paula Kane -- At home at war for Christ : domesticity and American Christianity in Europe's Great War / Jonathan H. Ebel -- From the angel of the household to the female apostles of the twentieth century / Magali Della Sudda -- Home is where the heart is : the Sacred Heart devotion in Catholic families in interwar Belgium / Tine Van Osselaer -- Gatherings at the family table : transformations in christology and popular religiosity in twentieth-century English Catholicism, 1945-1980 / Alana Harris

Although women were called the 'pious sex' much earlier, it was during the nineteenth century, when the differences between men and women were being made more explicit, that an intense bond between women and religion was developed. Religiosity was thought to be a 'natural' part of femininity and turned religious masculinity into an oddity. This clear-cut gender ideology, however, remains an ideology (prescribed and contested) that needs to be put in the perspective of its context of origin, the bourgeois milieu. How were these gender identities constructed and by whom? Tine Van Osselaer seeks to clarify how the gender differentiation was created among Belgian Catholics. She brings to light the extent to which religiosity was inscribed in these constructions and how religious teachings contributed to it. It is clear that the limitations of the 'feminization' thesis, a master narrative that has strongly contributed to the introduction of women in religious history, have gradually become more visible. Documenting pastoral care, the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Catholic Action, this book offers critical commentaries on the master narratives, suggesting that even men could belong to a 'pious sex.'