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

This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture.

List of contents

Introduction: The Cultural Work of Religious Transformation 1. Leaving... What Exactly? A Cultural and Auto-Ethnographic Account 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

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Nella van den Brandt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032496337
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249633-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Islam, RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Religion: general, Christianity, Judaism, Literary studies: general