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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand religion and the sacred, their interconnection, but also disassociation with the secular. Contributions by an international group of feminist theologians and religious studies scholars aim to re-configure the study of both religion and gender: Angela Berlis, Anne-Marie Korte, Kune Biezeveld , Helga Kuhlmann, Maaike de Haardt, Akke van der Kooi, Dorothea Erbele-Kuster, Willien van Wieringen, Magda Misset-van de Weg, Ge Speelman, Mathilde van Dijk, Jacqueline Borsje, Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes, Goedroen Juchtmans, Alma Lanser and Riet Bons-Storm.
Trade Review"[T]he volume is abundant and rich in the variety of disciplines, methods, religions, contexts, and approaches it engages and contributes to. Especially notable here is the spectrum of theological scholarship it engages. (...) While there remain still more avenues to be opened and explored, Everyday Life and the Sacred travels down paths previously unexplored, discovering and traversing untrodden intersections, and is thus a rich and helpful addition to scholars and students." - Brandy Daniels, University of Virginia, in: Reading Religion, June 26, 2018 (link visited on September 10, 2019)
Table of ContentsThe Genesis of This Book and Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Everyday Life and the Sacred: Gender Sensitive Explorations—Introduction Angela Berlis and Anne-Marie Korte Part 1: Categories 2 God in Everyday Life Kune Biezeveld† 3 The Hope to Become Holy: Bringing Holiness and Everyday Life Together Helga Kuhlmann 4 A Momentary Sacred Space: Religion, Gender and the Sacred in Everyday Life Maaike de Haardt 5 Time, Gender, the Sacred, and Everyday Life Akke van der Kooi Part 2: Textures 6 Menstruation and the Sacred in (Post) Biblical Discourse Dorothea Erbele-Küster 7 Holy Wit: A Good Laugh with Samson (Judges 13–16) Willien van Wieringen 8 Hats, Heads and Holiness in 1 Corinthians Magda Misset-van de Weg 9 Hijab: The Female Body as Boundary Gé Speelman Part 3: Powers 10 The Power of Place: Port-Royal, a Wounded Place Transfigured Angela Berlis 11 Power of Communities: The Daily Practice of Holiness by the Sisters of the Common Life at Deventer Mathilde van Dijk 12 The Power of Words: Sacred and Forbidden Love Magic in Medieval Ireland Jacqueline Borsje 13 The Power of the Voice: Stabat Mater in Music and Text Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes Part 4: 14 Women as Ritual Experts in Sacralising Everyday Home Life Goedroen Juchtmans 15 Peace Women: Traces of the Holy/ the Sacred in the Midst of Injustice and Violence Riet Bons-Storm 16 Music as a Bridge: Young Women in Migrant Churches in Amsterdam Alma Lanser 17 Signs from Heaven: Figuring the Sacred in Contemporary Miracle Stories Anne-Marie Korte Homemade Holiness: Re/Configuring Gender Studies in Religion Epilogue Anne-Marie Korte Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Sources Index of Subjects
