Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History: Lifting a Veil on Liturgy's Past

by Teresa Berger

Book Overview

Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Teresa Berger looks at liturgy's past through the lens of gender history, understood as attending not only to the historically prominent binary of "men" and "women" but to all gender identities, including inter-sexed persons, ascetic virgins, eunuchs, and priestly men. Demonstrating what a gender-attentive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409426998
• ISBN13: 9781409426998
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"