1st Edition

Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture Thinking Through Religious Transformation

By Nella van den Brandt Copyright 2024
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture. Religious individuals, themes, experiences and communities are widely represented in diverse literature and culture, including literary texts and visual arts and media. Taking the subject of religious transformation as an angle from which to study constructions of religion, gender and... Read more

Introduction: The Cultural Work of Religious Transformation 1. Leaving… What Exactly? A Cultural and Autoethnographic Account 2. Women’s Stories of Becoming Jewish and Muslim 3. Women from Calvinist and Jewish Folds: Negotiating Religious/Secular Demarcations

4. Women Leaving Calvinist and Jewish Folds: Rethinking Gender, and Religion-Race in Dutch Novels about Zeeland

5. Creole and Indigenous Women: Rethinking Europe and Religion 

6. Constructing the Muslim Question through Gender and Religion-Race

7. Jews, Muslims, Moroccans: Re-membering and Re-imagining Complicated Relationships

Conclusion: A Reflection on Normative Affect, Aliveness and Revolutionary Love

Epilogue

Biography

Nella van den Brandt is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Coventry University, UK. She is Senior Editor of the journal Religion and Gender.