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Christian Homes

Religion, Family and Domesticity in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Tine Van Osselaer, Patrick Pasture (eds)

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 during the period and the frequent blurring of boundaries between the Christian home and modern society, the case studies included in this volume call for a more nuanced understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home.

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n The Pious Sex. Catholic Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity in Belgium, c.1800–1940 Tine Van Osselaer € 49,50 / £44.00, isbn 978 90 5867 950 5, paperback, kadocStudies on Religion, Culture and Society 12 n Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe. Beyond the Feminization Thesis Patrick Pasture, Jan Art, Thomas Buerman (eds) € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 912 3, paperback, kadocStudies on Religion, Culture and Society 10 tine van osselaer is Researcher at the Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp. patrick pasture is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for European Studies at KU Leuven.

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n isbn 978 94 6270 018 5 n September 2014 n Paperback, 17 x 23,8 cm n 228 pp. n English n KADOC-Studies on Religion,

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