1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«Over a decade, in discussing how to establish new critical analyses of gender roles and boundaries, Linda Kerber wrote that ’no area is more inviting or more ignored than that of religion’ this collection of essays has taken her exhortation at its starting point, and through an investigation of both religious discourse and experience, it traces the way in which the Protestant and Roman Catholic religions have conceptualized the family and gender relations within it, as well as the evolving relationship between the institution of the Church, the family, and the community between 1760 and 1969.» (p. 3)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Données documentaires diverses

Type de traitement des données :
Réflexion critique

3. Résumé

«Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The author explores the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and the public, offering a revisionist perspective on the theoretical framework of separate spheres. By analysing gender relations within the matrix of the family, they explore both the conflicts and the interdependency of gender roles. Household of Faith has a broad scope, extending from a consideration of church ritual in New France, to demographic analyses of New Brunswick and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, to the intersection of gender and ethnicity, the construction of family in Aboriginal communities, and the changing definitions of sex roles and the family itself among both clergy and laypeople.» (p. i)

Les textes suivants font l’objet d’une fiche dans Famili@:
- Hubert, Ollivier, «Ritual Performance and Parish Sociability: French-Canadian Catholic Families at Mass from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century»
- Hudon, Christine, «Family Fortunes and Religious Identity: The French-Canadian Protestants of South Ely, Quebec, 1850-1901»
- Gauvreau, Michael, «The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec 1940-1966»