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- Title
Christening Masculinity? Catholic Action and Men in Interwar Belgium.
- Authors
Van Osselaer, Tine
- Abstract
Masculine reactions to the ‘feminisation of Christianity’ among Protestants have been widely explored; the Catholic case is less well known. This article focuses on Catholic Action, an organisation regarded as specifically appealing to men. Through an analysis of the discourses of Catholic Action in Belgium, it examines how important masculine involvement was for Belgian Catholicism and how Catholic Action ‘christened’ masculinity. The article also analyses Catholic femininity. It examines the ways that the ideal Catholic man and woman and their corresponding gendered behaviour and role models were defined in relation to each other and the various forms that these ideals assumed.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; CATHOLIC Action; RELIGIOUS movements; GENDER role -- Religious aspects; MASCULINITY -- Religious aspects; FEMININITY; 20TH century Catholic Church history; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION; CHURCH history
- Publication
Gender & History, 2009, Vol 21, Issue 2, p380
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01554.x