“A lot of women have good reason to complain about their husbands”. Catholic masculinity in the household
Although in recent years men’s religious movements have been studied within various national and denominational contexts, the depiction of average Christian men, especially Catholic men, is by no means complete. This article will try to respond to this still fragmentary knowledge, analysing the Cath...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/sextant, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Sextant
2024
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Although in recent years men’s religious movements have been studied within various national and denominational contexts, the depiction of average Christian men, especially Catholic men, is by no means complete. This article will try to respond to this still fragmentary knowledge, analysing the Catholic Church’s normative discourses. Concentrating on (exemplary) sermons, it will try to retrace the construction of the (ideal) Catholic male in the household. The focus of this article will be on the second half of the nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth. The questioning about the presumed decline of Christianity has drawn attention to the importance of religion in the formation and legitimizing of genders. This article will follow this lead and study how Catholic masculinity was constructed in the sermons. I thereby concentrate on printed sermon books, models, and sources of inspiration for the preachers. Since these works were edited, they had gained the consensus of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The books were selected from a catalogue of ‘representative’ nineteenth-century sermon books (for Flanders) listed by P.F. Broeckaert. I focused primarily on those books from his list that were published in Belgium in the second half of the nineteenth century and at the turn of the twentieth century. |
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