Christian Masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries / / Yvonne Maria Werner, ed

• Pubblicazione: Leuven : , : Leuven University Press, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 230
• Soggetto topico: Sex role - Religious aspects; Masculinity - Europe, Northern - History; Masculinity - Religious aspects - Christianity; Christian men - Conduct of life; Christian men - Europe, Northern
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Northern Church history
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WernerYvonne Maria
• Note generali: Collected essays resulting from an interdisciplinary research project.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-316) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Christian Masculinity - Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Editorial Board; Contents; Studying Christian masculinity - An introduction; Theoretical perspectives; Outline of the book; Part I: Key concepts and theoretical perspectives; The unrecognised piety of men - Strategies and success of the re-masculinisation campaign around 1900; A double marginalisation of manliness, a two fold feminisation; A critique of the feminisation concept; Reactions to feminisation; Re-evaluation: 'female' religiosity becomes 'male'; Religiosity transferred to 'masculine' spheres ; Neo-confessionalism: compensating for feminisationOvert masculinisation; Recapitulation; Masculinity and secularisation in twentieth-century britain; The secularised man and the religious woman; The problematic masculinity; Religion and gender after 1960; Part II: Visions and ideals of christian manhood; Heroic men and christian ideals; 'Heroes of the heart'; 'Male' and 'Masculine' heroism; Catholic heroism; The lutheran example; The concept of the hero in Swensk kyrkotidning; The exemplary lives of two christian heroes; Lutheran heroism; The catholic hero, the lutheran hero ; Masculinity, Memory, and Oblivion in the dutch dominican province, 1930-1950Homines dei, Homines ecclesiae?; Generational dynamics; Restoring order; Accepted and rejected legacies; Conclusion; The man in the clergyman - Swedish priest obituaries, 1905-1937; Man and Christian; Body or soul? Strategies for masculinisation; Clerical manliness, 1903-1937; Conclusions; Crises of faith and the making of christian masculinities at the turn of the twentieth century; The gender of religious crises; Threats to christian masculinity; J.A. Eklund's modern, manly christianity; Modern men as enervated men ; The manful struggle with modernityEklund's pessimistic optimism; Conclusions; Part III: Missionary Masculinity; Protestant mission in china - A proletarian perspective; Going to China; Disappointment of missions; Emasculation and its antidote; Writing adult manhood; Conclusion; Alternative Masculinity? - Catholic missionaries in scandinavia; The barnabites' italian masculinity; The jesuits' ultramontane masculinity; Final reflections; Part IV: Fostering Christian men; The making of christian men - An evangelical mission to the swedish army, c. 1900-1920 ; Evangelical revivalism as re-christianisationMissionary work among soldiers; The dilemma solved: evangelical fraternal groups; Growing interest in the work among soldiers; Evangelisation or a teetotal cafeteria?; Concluding remarks; Danish folk high school and the creation of a new danish man; Danish folk high schools; Trier and grundtvig; Trier's masculinity; The principal; Visions of femininity and masculinity; Conclusions; Part V: Transgressing gender boundaries; Literary transgressions of masculinity and religion; A 'crosspiece' named azouras lazuli tintomara; The creation of a new man ; A utopian creation
• Sommario/riassunto: In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today''s scholars talk about a feminisation of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society?This is the starting point for the research presented in
• Titolo autorizzato: Christian Masculinity
• ISBN: 94-6166-428-1; 94-6166-106-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910493743303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; ; 8.