Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (Liturgy, Worship and Society)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Part I Gendering Liturgy’s Past: \rThe Trouble, the Task, and the Tools......Page 20
1 Gender History in \nLiturgy’s Past—Why Not?......Page 22
Liturgy’s Past: History, Historiography, Tradition......Page 23
The Traditional Writing of Liturgy’s Past: Gender-Challenged......Page 27
Contesting Conventional Histories......Page 36
Women: Beginning to Make Liturgical History Gender-Attentive......Page 38
2 \nFrom Women to Gender Differences \nin Liturgy’s Past......Page 42
Gender History: Beyond Women’s Ways of Worship......Page 44
Why Gender History for Liturgy’s Past?......Page 49
Methodological Principles: Gender History and the Writing of \nLiturgy’s Past......Page 51
Lifting a Veil on Liturgy’s Past: What for?......Page 53
Part II  Tracing Gender in Liturgy’s Past......Page 56
3 Sacred Spaces and Gendered Bodies......Page 58
Egeria: Gender and Sacred Sites......Page 59
Interpreting Gender in Sacred Space......Page 61
Fragments from the Biblical Foundations......Page 65
Entering the Earliest Christian Sanctuaries: The Household as Sacred Space......Page 68
Entering Public Sanctuaries......Page 72
Gender Separations in Liturgical Space......Page 73
Gender Separation, Set in Stone......Page 78
Why Gender Separation in Sacred Space?......Page 79
Beyond Sanctuary Binaries......Page 82
Outside the Bounds of the Nascent Public Church......Page 83
Leaving the Sanctuary......Page 85
4 Eucharistic Fragments: Gender on and under the Table of Tradition......Page 88
Introduction......Page 89
Jesus as Both Host and Food......Page 91
The Eucharist as Mother’s Milk......Page 93
Breaking Bread and Blessing It, in Women’s Hands?......Page 109
Gathering the Fragments, “that nothing may be lost” (John 6:12)......Page 114
5 Presence at Worship: Bodily Flows as Liturgical Impediments......Page 116
Liturgical Anxieties about Bodily Flows......Page 118
Liturgical Constraints Related to Menstruation......Page 119
Liturgical Anxieties over Nocturnal Emissions......Page 130
Sexual Relations as an Impediment to Prayer......Page 135
Liturgical Prohibitions Related to Birth-giving......Page 142
Conclusions......Page 146
Introduction......Page 148
Liturgical Leadership and the Politics of Gender......Page 149
Circumscribing Priestly Masculinity......Page 161
A Priestly Womb and Priestly Breasts: Mary, the Mother of God......Page 168
Part III Gender, History, and Liturgical Tradition......Page 176
7 The Lasting Presence of Liturgy’s Past......Page 178
The Challenge: Writing Liturgical History without Veiling Gender......Page 181
Liturgical Tradition: What Happens When Lex Orandi and \nGender History Meet?......Page 188
The Past’s Presence, or Offering a History of Gender Trouble to \nLiturgical Life Today......Page 193
Finally, “To Be within the Veil”......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 204
Scripture Index......Page 230
General Index......Page 232