Christian Homes

Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the ‘angel in the house’. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the period and the frequent blurring of boundaries between the Christian home and modern society, the case studies included in this volume call for a more nuanced understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home.

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"Christian Homes" was edited by Tine Van Osselaer and Patrick Pasture.

Tine Van Osselaer is research professor at Universiteit Antwerpen (Ruusbroec Institute).

Patrick Pasture is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for European Studies at KU Leuven.

Yes, "Christian Homes" is part of the "KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society" series. It's book 14 in the series.

Elena Arigita Maza (Universidad de Granada)
Florian Bock (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Timothy Brittain‐Catlin (University of Cambridge)
James Chappel (Duke University)
Kim Christiaens (KADOC-KU Leuven)
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin)
​​​​James Kennedy (Utrecht University)
​​​Franziska Metzger (PH Luzern)
Patrick Pasture (MoSa‐KU Leuven) - chairman
Isabelle Saint‐Martin (EPHE Paris)
Thijl Sunier (VU Amsterdam)
Árpád von Klimó (Catholic University of America)
Veerle De Laet (Leuven University Press)
Peter Heyrman (KADOC-KU Leuven) - secretary

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CONTENTS
Religion, Family and Domesticity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries An introduction Tine Van Osselaer
Masculinity, Religiousness and the Domestic Sphere in the German-speaking World around 1900 Bernhard Schneider
The Household of the Pastor An Exponent of Christian Manliness Alexander Maurits
Gender, Family Life and Religious Identity in Nineteenth Century Ultramontane Aristocracy The Example of the House of Arenberg Bertrand Goujon
Making the Charitable Man Catholic Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century France Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée
Stigmatic Cults and Pilgrimage The Convergence of Private and Public Faith Paula Kane
At Home at War for Christ Domesticity and American Christianity in Europe's Great War Jonathan H. Ebel
From the Angel of the Household to the Female Apostles of the Twentieth Century Magali Della Sudda
Home is where the Heart is The Sacred Heart Devotion in Catholic Families in Interwar Belgium Tine Van Osselaer
Gatherings at the Family Table Transformations in Christology and Popular Religiosity in Twentieth-Century English Catholicism, 1945-1980 Alana Harris
Bibliography Contributors Colophon