Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the 'angel in the house'. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity duri...

Ontmoetingen in het Oosten analyseert de evolutie en interactie van verschillende Aziatische culturen, van de eerste beschavingen in Mesopotamië, India en China vier millennia geleden tot op vandaag. De auteur neemt je mee op een tocht langs de zijderoutes tussen China, India en de Middellandse Zee. Via de Indische Oceaan en de Chinese Zee doet hij ook overzeese contacten en Japan aan. Je ontdekt een geschiedenis van globalisering, multicultureel samenleven en migratie, wars van vooroordelen...

Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity

Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this 'thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their a...