Sex, Gender and the Sacred

Joanna de Groot is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York and a member of the Centres for Eighteenth Century Studies, Modern Studies and Women’s Studies.Sue Morgan is Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Chichester, UK. She works on the history of religion and gender and her most recent publications include the co-edited volumes Women, Gender and Religious Cultures: Britain, 1800-1940 (2010) with Jacqueline de Vries and Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth Century Britain (2013) with Lucy Delap.

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction: Beyond the ‘Religious Turn’? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History 1JOANNA DE GROOT AND SUE MORGANPart I: Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges1 Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin 31CAROLYN E. WATSON2 Liberal Religion and the ‘Woman Question’ between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women’s Journal 51CLARE MIDGLEY3 Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shann¨uren zhuan 67YUET KEUNG LO4 ‘All of Their Customs are Daughters of Their Religion’: Baptists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920s–present 83KATHLEEN M. McINTYRE5 Creating the ‘Problem Hindu’: Sati, Thuggee and Female Infanticide in India, 1800–60 104DANIEL J. R. GREYPart II: Religion, Embodiment and Subjectivity6 Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies: A Historiographical Overview 119´ERICA COUTO-FERREIRA AND AGN`ES GARCIA-VENTURA7 Lamentation Motifs in Medieval Hagiography 135ANNE E. BAILEY8 Architecture of Desire: Mediating the Female Gaze in the Medieval English Anchorhold 150MICHELLE M. SAUER9 The Alluring Beauty of a Leonardesque Ideal: Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan 170MAYA CORRY10 ‘Deaf to the Word’: Gender, Deafness and Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland 195ESME CLEALLPart III: Religion, Gender and Sexuality11 The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: ‘Abortion Miracles’ in Early Medieval Saints’ Lives 211ZUBIN MISTRY12 ‘Give Me Chastity’: Masculinity and Attitudes to Chastity and Celibacy in the Middle Ages 225PAT CULLUM13 Common Soldiers, Same-Sex Love and Religion in the Early Eighteenth-Century British Army 241SUSAN GANE14 ‘Dark Ecstasies’: Sex, Mysticism and Psychology in Early Twentieth-Century England 256JOY DIXON15 Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain 272MARY VINCENTPart IV: Gender, Religion and Political Activity16 Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century South India 287WILSON CHACKO JACOB17 ‘Fatherland, Religion, Family’: Exploring the History of a Slogan in Greece, 1880–1930 304EFFI GAZI18 The More Things Change: Debating Gender and Religion in India’s Hindu Laws, 1920–2006 315RINA VERMA WILLIAMSIndex 329