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Index
Cover
Series
Titlepage
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Beyond the ‘Religious Turn’? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History
Past perspectives
Present perspectives
Crossing cultures, and transcultural exchanges
Religion, embodiment and subjectivity
Religion, gender and sexuality
Gender, religion and political activity
Future perspectives
Notes
Part I Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges
1 Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin
Ocha-Ifá: African roots, Cuban praxis
Witches, warlocks and the spectre of history
The Egbe Gëlèdé: contemporary manoeuvres in gender, sexuality and the sacred
‘Women penetrate Ifá’
Conclusions
Notes
2 Liberal Religion and the ‘Woman Question’ between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women's Journal
Unitarian women activists as exemplars for Brahmo women
The ‘new’ Bengali woman and the spectre of the ‘strong-minded’ woman
Communications between Unitarian and Brahmo women
Liberal religion and the ‘woman question’ between east and west
Notes
3 Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannüren zhuan
The Shannüren zhuan
The editor
Religious syncretism
Literary form: structures and strictures
Formulaic narrative in the Pure Land women's biographies
Truncated narrative in the Chan women's biographies
Some critical remarks
Appendix I: two samples of Pure Land women's biographies
Appendix II: two samples of Chan women's biographies
Notes
4 ‘All of Their Customs are Daughters of Their Religion’: Baptists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920s–present
Scholarship
Protestant inroads in Oaxaca
Convención Bautista Nacional de México in Tlacochahuaya
La Unión Femenil and the new chapel
Protestantism and violence
Memory and martyrdom
Conclusion
Notes
5 Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’: Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800–60
‘Of What Concerns Women’: Hindu femininity and victimhood
‘Execrable pride and selfishness’: Hindu masculinity and violence
Conclusions
Notes
Part II Religion, Embodiment and Subjectivity
6 Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies: A Historiographical Overview
Starting point: feminist epistemologies as a theoretical framework
Gender studies and Assyriology: a relationship under construction
Purity and impurity in Mesopotamia: defining terms
Terminology of ‘(im)purity’ in Assyriological studies: an assessment
Women and bodily products: blood and menstruation
A case study: (im)pure women in Mari
To conclude: gendered bodies and (im)purity
Notes
7 Lamentation Motifs in Medieval Hagiography
Literary inheritance
Tropes of maternal mourning
Weeping
Wailing
Violent gesticulation
Lamentation and the cult of saints
Lament motifs in late medieval saints’ lives
Conclusion
Notes
8 Architecture of Desire: Mediating the Female Gaze in the Medieval English Anchorhold
Mechanics of medieval sight
The dangers of sight
Redeeming sight
Architecture of desire
Notes
9 The Alluring Beauty of a Leonardesque Ideal: Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan
Youthful male beauty in Christian thought
Masculine beauty and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Milan
Youthful beauty in Leonardo's thought
Image and viewer
The issue of sexuality
Composite beauty and Leonardesque androgyny
Notes
10 ‘Deaf to the Word’: Gender, Deafness and Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Deaf ‘heathens’: the problem of the ‘deaf and dumb’
Impious and impure: gendering irreligion
The deaf-mute's faith
Conclusion
Notes
Part III Religion, Gender and Sexuality
11 The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: ‘Abortion Miracles’ in Early Medieval Saints’ Lives
Early Irish hagiography
The Brigidine vitae
The vitae of Áed and Cainnech
The vita of Ciarán of Saigir
Complications: making the text disappear
The miraculous in the motif: gender and chastity
Conclusion
Notes
12 ‘Give Me Chastity’: Masculinity and Attitudes to Chastity and Celibacy in the Middle Ages
Conclusion
Notes
13 Common Soldiers, Same-Sex Love and Religion in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Army
The autobiography of Sampson Staniforth
Military attitudes to sexuality and masculinity
Masculinity, religion and ‘the unpardonable sin’
Methodism and Staniforth's story
Conclusions
Notes
14 ‘Dark Ecstasies’: Sex, Mysticism and Psychology in Early Twentieth-Century England
Notes
15 Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain
Notes
Part IV Gender, Religion and Political Activity
16 Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century South India
Sovereignty's global history
Global expansions, gender and religion
Resisting feudal futures
Immodest proposals: sovereignty, women's rights and the problem of conversion
Conclusion
Notes
17 ‘Fatherland, Religion, Family’: Exploring the History of a Slogan in Greece, 1880–1930
Notes
18 The More Things Change: Debating Gender and Religion in India's Hindu Laws, 1920–2006
The early 1920s debates: British, colonial, civilising
Debates of the 1940s and 1950s: moment of transition
The 2006 debates: Indian, postcolonial, modernising
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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