Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction: Beyond the ‘Religious Turn’? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History 1 JOANNA DE GROOT AND SUE MORGAN
Part I: Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges
1 Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin 31 CAROLYN E. WATSON
2 Liberal Religion and the ‘Woman Question’ between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women’s Journal 51 CLARE MIDGLEY
3 Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannúren zhuan 67 YUET KEUNG LO
4 ‘All of Their Customs are Daughters of Their Religion’: Baptists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920s–present 83 KATHLEEN M. McINTYRE
5 Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’: Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800–60 104 DANIEL J. R. GREY
Part II: Religion, Embodiment and Subjectivity
6 Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies: A Historiographical Overview 119 ´ERICA COUTO-FERREIRA AND AGNES GARCIA-VENTURA
7 Lamentation Motifs in Medieval Hagiography 135 ANNE E. BAILEY
8 Architecture of Desire: Mediating the Female Gaze in the Medieval English Anchorhold 150 MICHELLE M. SAUER
9 The Alluring Beauty of a Leonardesque Ideal: Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan 170 MAYA CORRY
10 ‘Deaf to the Word’: Gender, Deafness and Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland 195 ESME CLEALL
Part III: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
11 The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: ‘Abortion Miracles’ in Early Medieval Saints’ Lives 211 ZUBIN MISTRY
12 ‘Give Me Chastity’: Masculinity and Attitudes to Chastity and Celibacy in the Middle Ages 225 PAT CULLUM
13 Common Soldiers, Same-Sex Love and Religion in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Army 241 SUSAN GANE
14 ‘Dark Ecstasies’: Sex, Mysticism and Psychology in Early Twentieth-Century England 256 JOY DIXON
15 Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain 272 MARY VINCENT
Part IV: Gender, Religion and Political Activity
16 Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century South India 287 WILSON CHACKO JACOB
17 ‘Fatherland, Religion, Family’: Exploring the History of a Slogan in Greece, 1880–1930 304 EFFI GAZI
18 The More Things Change: Debating Gender and Religion in India’s Hindu Laws, 1920–2006 315 RINA VERMA WILLIAMS
Index 329
