{"product_id":"women-gender-and-religious-cultures-in-britain-18001940-9780415232135","title":"Women Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over womenâs roles and ministry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology, literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies. The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by womenâs religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary organisations, national and transnational political reform networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship between secularisation and modern life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This volume makes an excellent contribution to the field of religious and gender history, properly marking the revival of interest in religion within British cultural and social history that has been quietly developing over the past decade ... as a whole this book provides exactly what the field needs: a discussion of British Christianity which explores women's agency in their encounter with Christian discourses; which offers an interrogation of the categories of the sacred and the secular; and which examines the profound connections between (expansive and flexible) Christian cultures and the histories of sexuality, reform, feminism, the family and domesticity.' – \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003cem\u003eWomen, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940\u003c\/em\u003e, should be read and used by anyone interested in nineteenth-century British women's history.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e– Anglican and Episcopal History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Morgan and deVries's collection...rethinks popular trends and assumptions in the scholarship of gender studies and religion, demanding a high level of intellectual rigor regarding topics that often encourage glib assumptions and simple dichotomies. Anyone doing work on gender and religion would profit from reading this book.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e– Victorian Studies \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cem\u003eSue Morgan and Jacqueline DeVries\u003c\/em\u003e 1. Is there a Bible in the house? Gender, Religion and Family Culture \u003cem\u003eSarah Williams \u003c\/em\u003e2 Women, Writing and the Creation of Theological Cultures \u003cem\u003eJulie Melnyk \u003c\/em\u003e3 Women and Philanthropic Cultures \u003cem\u003eSusan Mumm \u003c\/em\u003e4 Women, religious ministry and female institution-building \u003cem\u003eCarmen Mangion \u003c\/em\u003e5 ‘With fear and trembling’: women, preaching and spiritual authority \u003cem\u003ePamela Walker \u003c\/em\u003e6 Professionalising their faith: Women, religion and the cultures of mission and empire \u003cem\u003eRhonda Semple \u003c\/em\u003e7 Women, religion and reform \u003cem\u003eClare Midgley \u003c\/em\u003e8 ‘The Word Made Flesh’: Women, Religion and Sexual Cultures \u003cem\u003eSue Morgan \u003c\/em\u003e9 More than Paradoxes to Offer: Feminism, History and Religious Cultures \u003cem\u003eJacqueline DeVries \u003c\/em\u003e10 Modernity, Heterodoxy and the Transformation of Religious Cultures Joy Dixon Afterword: Women, Gender and Religion in post-1940 Britain \u003cem\u003eSue Morgan and Jacqueline DeVries\u003c\/em\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018119807319,"sku":"9780415232135","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415232135.jpg?v=1750775694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-gender-and-religious-cultures-in-britain-18001940-9780415232135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}