Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• PATRICK PASTURE
• LEEN VAN MOLLE
• JAN DE MAEYER
• TINE VAN OSSELAER
• VINCENT VIAENE

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe, 2012, p.7

Ort / Verlag

Leuven University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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