Patrick Pasture is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for European Studies at KU Leuven. Jan Art retired as professor of history at the University of Ghent in 2010. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century cultural and religious history, social science methodology in history, and psychohistory.

• CONTENTSPatrick Pasture Beyond the feminization thesis.Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesBernhard SchneiderThe Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century GermanyAngela BerlisCelibate or married priests?Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century CatholicismJan ArtThe Cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? A psycho-historical hypothesisHugh McLeodThe 'Sportsman' and the 'Muscular Christian'.Rival ideals in nineteenth-century EnglandThomas BuermanLions and lambs at the same time!Belgian Zouave stories and examples of religious masculinityTine Van Osselaer'From that moment on, I was a man!'.Images of the Catholic male in the Sacred Heart devotionMarit MonteiroRepertoires of Catholic manliness in the Netherlands (1850-1940).A case study of the Dutch DominicansMarieke SmuldersThe boys of Saint Dominic 's.Catholic boys' culture at a minor seminary in interwar HollandMarjet DerksFemale soldiers and the battle for God.Gender ambiguities and a Dutch Catholic conversion movement, 1921-1942Michael E. O'SullivanA feminized Church?German Catholic women, piety, and domesticity, 1918-1938BibliographyIndex

Het boek is zeer coherent, in de zin dat alle auteurs inderdaad ingaan op de feminiseringsthese. De auteurs baseren zich allen op eigen en origineel onderzoek. Dit maakt dat het materiaal hier verzameld een belangrijke bijdrage in aan het veld van de historische bestudering van gender en christendom in Europa.K.E. Knibbe, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, jaargang 16, 2013, nummer 3