Sex, gender, and the sacred: reconfiguring religion in gender history
In: Gender and history special issue book series
Introduction: Beyond the 'Religious Turn'? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History / Joanna de Groot, Sue Morgan -- Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges. Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin / Carolyn E Watson -- Liberal Religion and the 'Woman Question' between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women's Journal / Clare Midgley -- Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the / Yuet Keung Lo -- 'All of Their Customs are Daughters of Their Religion': Baptists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920s-present / Kathleen M McIntyre -- Creating the 'Problem Hindu': Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800-60 / Daniel J R Grey -- Religion, Embodiment and Subjectivity. Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies: A Historiographical Overview / Erica Couto-Ferreira, Agnès Garcia-Ventura -- Lamentation Motifs in Medieval Hagiography / Anne E Bailey -- Architecture of Desire: Mediating the Female Gaze in the Medieval English Anchorhold / Michelle M Sauer -- The Alluring Beauty of a Leonardesque Ideal: Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan / Maya Corry -- 'Deaf to the Word': Gender, Deafness and Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / Esme Cleall -- Religion, Gender and Sexuality. The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: 'Abortion Miracles' in Early Medieval Saints' Lives / Zubin Mistry -- 'Give Me Chastity': Masculinity and Attitudes to Chastity and Celibacy in the Middle Ages / Pat Cullum -- Common Soldiers, Same-Sex Love and Religion in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Army / Susan Gane -- 'Dark Ecstasies': Sex, Mysticism and Psychology in Early Twentieth-Century England / Joy Dixon -- Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain / Mary Vincent -- Gender, Religion and Political Activity. Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century South India / Wilson Chacko Jacob -- '': Exploring the History of a Slogan in Greece, 1880-1930 / Effi Gazi -- The More Things Change: Debating Gender and Religion in India's Hindu Laws, 1920-2006 / Rina Verma Williams.