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The Pious Sex Strives To Enlighten The Reader With Respect To The Relationship Between Women And Religion. The Notion That There Is A Special Relationship Between Women And Piety May Call To Mind The Worst Of The Prejudices Associated With Women Over The Ages: The Characterization Of Women As Superstitious And Inherently Irrational Creatures Who Must Be Kept Firmly In Hand By The Patriarchal Establishment. The Suggestion That There Is A Special Relationship Between Women And Piety Conjures Up The Most Oppressive Picture Of Womanly Virtue. The Contributors Of This Volume Revisit The Claim That Women Constitute The Pious Sex And Investigate The Implications Of Such A Designation. This Collection Of Original Essays Examines The Relationship Between Women And Religion In The History Of Political Thought, Broadly Conceived. This Theme Is A Remarkably Revealing Lens Through Which To View The Western Philosophical And Poetical Traditions That Have Culminated In Secular And Egalitarian Modern Society. The Essays Also Give Highly Analytical Accounts Of The Manifold And Intricate Relationships Among Religion, Family, And Public Life In The History Of Political Thought, And The Various Ways I

Author

ANDREA RADASANU, edited by Andrea Radasanu

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613911612

Subjects

Christian, Religion, History