Pieties and Gender (International Studies in Religion and Society)

CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface (Hans Raun Iversen)......Page 8
Introduction (Lene Sjørup)......Page 10
PART ONE PIETIES AND POLITICS......Page 20
Agency, Performativity, and the Feminist Subject (Saba Mahmood)......Page 22
The Politics of Piety and the Norms of Analysis (Robin May Schott)......Page 56
Gender, Religion and Human Rights in Europe (Kari Elisabeth Børresen)......Page 64
Sexual Abstinence Education and the Reassertion of the "Biblical" Patriarchal Family Unit in the Contemporary United States (Claire Greslé-Favier)......Page 74
PART TWO PIETIES AND METHODOLOGIES......Page 92
Gender and Religious Mobilization: Global Value Surveys and Beyond (Clyde Wilcox)......Page 94
Shaking Hands, Shaking Theologies (Lene Sjørup)......Page 108
PART THREE
VIRTUOUS MASCULINITIES......Page 130
In Search of God's Hand: On Masculinity and Religion (Thomas Blom Hansen)......Page 132
Religious Feminisation, Confessionalism and Re-masculinisation in Western European Society 1800–1960 (Yvonne Maria Werner)......Page 152
Nineteenth-Century United States (Karin Erdevig Gedge)......Page 176
PART FOUR SYMBOLIC GENDER REPRESENTATIONS......Page 192
When the YWCA Entered the City: The Complexity of Space, Gender and Modernity (Hilda Rømer Christensen)......Page 194
The Power and Ambiguity of Symbols: Contemporary Religion and the Search for a Feminine Divine (Jone Salomonsen)......Page 214
List of Contributors......Page 238
Index......Page 244