Pieties and Gender (International Studies in Religion and Society)

Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the relations between pieties and politics, pieties and methodologies, virtuous masculinities, and symbolic gender representations. Several articles discuss highly controversial questions: Muslim piety, religion in the European Union between the Vatican and the Muslim populations, the religiously motivated abstinence policies of the US. Furthermore, there is an interesting section about religious masculinities in a historical and contemporary perspective. Contributors include: Saba Mahmood, Robin May Schott, Kari E. Børresen, Claire Greslé-Favier, Clyde Wilcox, Lene Sjørup, Thomas Blom Hansen, Yvonne Maria Werner, Karin E. Gedge, Hilda Rømer Christensen, and Jone Salomonsen. 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 Preface / Hans Raun Iversen -- Introduction / Lene Sjørup -- Pieties And Politics -- Agency, Performativity, And The Feminist Subject / Saba Mahmood -- The Politics Of Piety And The Norms Of Analysis / Robin May Schott -- Gender, Religion, And Human Rights In Europe / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- Sexual Abstinence Education And The Reassertion Of The Biblical Patriarchal Family Unit In Contemporary United States / Claire Greslé-favier -- Pieties And Methodologies -- Gender And Religious Mobilization : Global Value Surveys And Beyond / Clyde Wilcox -- Shaking Hands, Shaking Theologies / Lene Sjørup -- Virtuous Masculinities -- In Search Of God's Hand : On Masculinity And Religion / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Religious Feminisation, Confessionalism, And Re-masculinisation In Western European Society, 1800-1960 / Yvonne Maria Werner -- Assessing The Impact Of Gender Ideology And Sexuality In The Historical Pastoral And Pedagogical Relationship In Nineteenth-century United States / Karin Erdevig Gedge -- Symbolic Gender Representations -- When The Ywca Entered The City : The Complexity Of Space, Gender, And Modernity / Hilda Rømer Christensen -- The Power And Ambiguity Of Symbols : Contemporary Religion And The Search For A Feminine Divine / Jone Salomonsen. Edited By Lene Sjørup And Hilda Rømer Christensen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Preface / Hans Raun Iversen -- Introduction / Lene Sjorup -- Part I: Pieties and politics -- Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood -- The politics of piety and the norms of analysis / Robin May Schott -- Gender, religion, and human rights in Europe / Kari Elisabeth Borresen -- Sexual abstinence education and the reassertion of the "biblical" patriarchal family unit in contemporary United States / Claire Gresle-Favier -- Part II: Pieties and methodologies -- Gender and religious mobilization : global value surveys and beyond / Clyde Wilcox -- Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjorup -- Part III: Virtuous masculinities -- In search of God's hand : on masculinity and religion / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Religious feminisation, confessionalism, and re-masculinisation in western European society, 1800-1960 / Yvonne Maria Werner -- Assessing the impact of gender ideology and sexuality in the historical pastoral and pedagogical relationship in nineteenth-century United States / Karin Erdevig Gedge -- Part IV: Symbolic gender representations -- When the YWCA entered the city : the complexity of space, gender, and modernity / Hilda Romer Christensen -- The power and ambiguity of symbols : contemporary religion and the search for a feminine divine / Jone Salomonsen