BIBFRAME Work

Title

Gender and sacred textures

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Schleicher, Marianne (editor)

Subject

• Sacred books (LCSH)
• Sex role--Religious aspects (LCSH)
• Gender identity--Religious aspects (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: BL65.S4 G466 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 200.81 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"This anthology asks how the handling, use, and embodied enactments of sacred texts regulate, entangle, occlude, tolerate, or even subvert religious and gendered identities"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Old Norse women's use of sacred textures in crisis situations / Emma C. Sørlie Jørgensen -- "Then Queen Esther daughter of Abihail wrote" : gendered agency and ritualized writing in Jewish scriptural practice / Joanna Homrighausen -- "I left my Bible at home..." : Evangelical women's bodies as biblical text in the workplace during the 1980s / Rachel E.C. Beckley -- Doing piety through care : embodied enactments of the Qur'an and gender perceptions in Muslim families in contemporary Denmark / Abir Mohamad Ismail.

Authorized Access Point

Gender and sacred textures

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:05.731187+00:00
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• Status: c
• Derived from: 24088976

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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