TY  - CHAP
AB  - Through the history of religions, their holy texts and norms have been sources of men’s images in societies and have presented forms of masculinity that have been expressed in religious acts. This paper examines how this reciprocal influence has shifted from the perspective of the sociology of religion and history of religion. It is the introduction to an edited volume which brings together research on religious traditions from experts in the field. The article analyses similarities and differences in the interwoven relationships between specific religions and between concepts and practices of masculinity in different societies and cultures, such as Western forms of Christianity during the last centuries, European Judaism and Arabic Islam during the Middle Ages and South Asian Buddhism and Hinduism. It is the first comparative research on a variety of religions and forms of masculinity, and thereby contributes to the growing field of interdisciplinary research on (critical) men’s studies in Religion.
AU  - Gerster, Daniel
AU  - Krüggeler, Michael
DO  - 10.5771/9783956504549-7
KW  - Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik
KW  - Centrum für Religion und Moderne
KW  - Religion
KW  - Geschlecht
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics
KW  - Center for Religion and Modernity
KW  - Gender
KW  - History
LA  - eng
N1  - Gerster, Daniel; Krüggeler, Michael (Hrsg.): God's Own Gender? Masculinities in World Religions. Baden Baden : Ergon, 2018, (Religion in der Gesellschaft ; Bd. 44) ISBN 978-3-95650-453-2, S. 7-36
N1  - Die Veröffentlichung erfolgt mit freundlichen Genehmigung des Ergon Verlages.
PY  - 2018
TI  - Masculinities in World Religions. Some Introductory Remarks
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-75129536358
Y2  - 2024-11-21T23:28:23
ER  -