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Christian Masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Summary, in English

Christianity has markedly patriarchal traits, and by tradition men have played the dominant role in the affairs of all churches. Men ran the churches, and the clergy long remained exclusively male, but at the parochial level women began to dominate more and more. In middle-class, liberal, anti-clerical, and socialist circles, the exercise of religion became identified as a female concern. But was this really the case? What were the outlets for male religiosity? And how to explain the large numbers of men who were committed to the church and the Christian faith? These are the questions addressed in the present book.

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Publication/Series

KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society

Volume

8

Document type

Book

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Topic

  • History

Keywords

  • Protestantism
  • Lutheran household doctrine
  • Catholicism
  • remasculinisation
  • confessionalism
  • Feminisation
  • celibacy and asceticism
  • national identity
  • clericalism
  • combat spirit
  • ideals of manhood

Status

Published

Project

  • Christian Manliness, a Paradox of Modernity: Men and Religion in a Northern-European Context, 1840 to 1940
  • Christian Manliness, a Paradox of Modernity

Research group

  • Christian manliness - a paradox of modernity

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9789058678737
  • ISBN: 978-94-6166-428-0
  • ISBN: 9789461661067