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Rediscovering Christianity After the Postmodern Turn*
Author(s) -
DeVries Jacqueline
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00194.x
Subject(s) - oppression , postmodernism , emancipation , christianity , faith , neglect , spirituality , sociology , gender studies , courage , psychoanalysis , psychology , religious studies , epistemology , political science , philosophy , politics , law , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry
After decades of both benign and hostile neglect, feminist historians appear to be rediscovering religion as an important site in the historical construction of gender. This review of ten recent books on religion and gender in Modern Britain outlines the methodological and thematic shifts of the last several decades, which have steered feminist historians away from analyses of religion that emphasize victimization and oppression and toward more nuanced readings of the ways in which faith, belief, religion and spirituality informed women’s (and men’s) roles, values, self‐definitions and struggles for emancipation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.