Alternative masculinity? : Catholic missionaries in Scandinavia
Werner, Yvonne Maria LU
(2011)
In KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society
8.
p.165-187
- Abstract
- This chapter deals with Italian Barnabites and German Jesuits working as missionaries in the Nordic countries and the ideals of clerical masculinity that they represented. The Barnabites were important in the initial phase of the Catholic missionary activity in the 1860s and 1870s, whereas the Jesuits, ostensibly the most fervent defenders of ultramontane confessionalism, held a dominant position in the Swedish and Danish church in the ensuing period. The humble, pious, obedient, and self-sacrificing ideals of manliness expressed in the reports of these celibate missionaries stood in sharp contrast not only to modern Protestant ideas of manhood, but also to the prevailing middle-class understanding of masculinity. Similar perspectives are... (More)
- This chapter deals with Italian Barnabites and German Jesuits working as missionaries in the Nordic countries and the ideals of clerical masculinity that they represented. The Barnabites were important in the initial phase of the Catholic missionary activity in the 1860s and 1870s, whereas the Jesuits, ostensibly the most fervent defenders of ultramontane confessionalism, held a dominant position in the Swedish and Danish church in the ensuing period. The humble, pious, obedient, and self-sacrificing ideals of manliness expressed in the reports of these celibate missionaries stood in sharp contrast not only to modern Protestant ideas of manhood, but also to the prevailing middle-class understanding of masculinity. Similar perspectives are also found in Catholic magazines, in which male saints are described as being just as pious and eager to live up to the religious virtues as female saints. But in a Catholic understanding, the question was not about male and female ideals, but about Christian ideals and their absence. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1716495
- author
- Werner, Yvonne Maria
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- constructions of masculinity, celibacy, discursive feminisation, obedience, Christian virtues, Jesuits, Catholic mission, Barnabites
- host publication
- Christian masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- series title
- KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society
- editor
- Werner, Yvonne Maria
- volume
- 8
- pages
- 165 - 187
- publisher
- Leuven University Press
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85024369989
- ISBN
- 9789058678737
- 978-94-6166-428-0
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctt9qdxtn.11
- project
- Christian Manliness, a Paradox of Modernity: Men and Religion in a Northern-European Context, 1840 to 1940
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f29e1fc8-7a59-4dcf-ba5f-57caf4b52d29 (old id 1716495)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 11:06:44
- date last changed
- 2024-04-13 15:13:46
@inbook{f29e1fc8-7a59-4dcf-ba5f-57caf4b52d29,
abstract = {{This chapter deals with Italian Barnabites and German Jesuits working as missionaries in the Nordic countries and the ideals of clerical masculinity that they represented. The Barnabites were important in the initial phase of the Catholic missionary activity in the 1860s and 1870s, whereas the Jesuits, ostensibly the most fervent defenders of ultramontane confessionalism, held a dominant position in the Swedish and Danish church in the ensuing period. The humble, pious, obedient, and self-sacrificing ideals of manliness expressed in the reports of these celibate missionaries stood in sharp contrast not only to modern Protestant ideas of manhood, but also to the prevailing middle-class understanding of masculinity. Similar perspectives are also found in Catholic magazines, in which male saints are described as being just as pious and eager to live up to the religious virtues as female saints. But in a Catholic understanding, the question was not about male and female ideals, but about Christian ideals and their absence.}},
author = {{Werner, Yvonne Maria}},
booktitle = {{Christian masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries}},
editor = {{Werner, Yvonne Maria}},
isbn = {{9789058678737}},
keywords = {{constructions of masculinity; celibacy; discursive feminisation; obedience; Christian virtues; Jesuits; Catholic mission; Barnabites}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{165--187}},
publisher = {{Leuven University Press}},
series = {{KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society}},
title = {{Alternative masculinity? : Catholic missionaries in Scandinavia}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/71687759/Alternative_Masculinity.pdf}},
doi = {{10.2307/j.ctt9qdxtn.11}},
volume = {{8}},
year = {{2011}},
}