An interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand religion and the sacred, their interconnection, but also disassociation with the secular.
Angela Berlis is Professor of the History of Old Catholicism and General Church History at the Departement für Christkatholische Theologie and Co-director of the Competence Centre for Liturgy of the Theological Faculty at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Anne-Marie Korte is Professor of Religion and Gender at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is President of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender (IARG) and editor in chief of Religion and Gender.
Kune Biezeveld (1948-2008) was Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Professor of Womenâs Studies in Theology at the Protestant Theological University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
"[T]he volume is abundant and rich in the variety of disciplines, methods, religions, contexts, and approaches it engages and contributes to. Especially notable here is the spectrum of theological scholarship it engages. (...) While there remain still more avenues to be opened and explored, Everyday Life and the Sacred travels down paths previously unexplored, discovering and traversing untrodden intersections, and is thus a rich and helpful addition to scholars and students." - Brandy Daniels, University of Virginia, in: Reading Religion, June 26, 2018 (link visited on September 10, 2019)
The Genesis of This Book and Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
1 Everyday Life and the Sacred: Gender Sensitive ExplorationsâIntroduction
âAngela Berlis and Anne-Marie Korte
Part 1: Categories
2 God in Everyday Life
âKune Biezeveldâ
3 The Hope to Become Holy: Bringing Holiness and Everyday Life Together
âHelga Kuhlmann
4 A Momentary Sacred Space: Religion, Gender and the Sacred in Everyday Life
âMaaike de Haardt
5 Time, Gender, the Sacred, and Everyday Life
âAkke van der Kooi
10 The Power of Place: Port-Royal, a Wounded Place Transfigured
âAngela Berlis
11 Power of Communities: The Daily Practice of Holiness by the Sisters of the Common Life at Deventer
âMathilde van Dijk
12 The Power of Words: Sacred and Forbidden Love Magic in Medieval Ireland
âJacqueline Borsje
13 The Power of the Voice: Stabat Mater in Music and Text âHedwig Meyer-Wilmes
Part 4:
14 Women as Ritual Experts in Sacralising Everyday Home Life âGoedroen Juchtmans 15 Peace Women: Traces of the Holy/ the Sacred in the Midst of Injustice and Violence âRiet Bons-Storm 16 Music as a Bridge: Young Women in Migrant Churches in Amsterdam âAlma Lanser 17 Signs from Heaven: Figuring the Sacred in Contemporary Miracle Stories âAnne-Marie Korte Homemade Holiness: Re/Configuring Gender Studies in Religion Epilogue âAnne-Marie Korte
Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Sources Index of Subjects
All interested in Gender Studies in Theology and Religious Studies, concerned with the relationship between everyday life and the sacred.