| Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe Contributor(s): Brown (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004163069 ISBN-13: 9789004163065 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: This collection of twelve new essays examines the role of women and of gender in a broad range of 'radical' beliefs and practices in post-Reformation Europe. Included are German Anabaptists, English Quakers, prophetesses, and unorthodox Catholic nuns. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Europe - Renaissance - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 274.070 |
| LCCN: 2007040101 |
| Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.35 lbs) 340 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and petitioners, in their global travels, and in their domestic lives; the second examines early modern prophetesses and their radical revisions of scripture, gender, body, and voice; and the third concerns women who, in diverse ways, crossed boundaries, including the confessional boundaries of Europe. A strength of this volume is its comparative re-examination of the term 'radical'. German Anabaptists are discussed alongside unorthodox nuns with the aim of understanding how gender factors into innovative and oppositional religion. Contributors include: Sarah Apetrei, Naomi Baker, Sylvia Brown, Ruth Connolly, Pamela Ellis, Jos Manuel Gonz lez, Julie Hirst, Stephen A. Kent, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Bo Karen Lee, Kirilka Stavreva, and Sheila Wright. |