RT Article
T1 Liturgical History as Gender History: Why Not?
JF Annali di studi religiosi
VO 11
SP 241
OP 256
A1 Berger, Teresa 1956-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776222040
AB This essay inquires into the writing of liturgical history, focusing on the challenges that have  emerged  for  history  writing  with  the  interpretive  tools  of  gender  history.  Ultimately,  my historiographic argument has a theological aim, namely, to interrogate liturgical history as  this  history  grounds  authorizing  claims  to  the  past  in  the  form  of  appeals  to  «Liturgical  Tradition».  In  order  to  attend  to  this,  a  prior  question  has  to  be  explored:  Why  has  the  study  of  liturgy  largely  ignored  and  thus  occluded  gender  in  the  inquiry  into  liturgy’s  past?  The  present  essay  seeks  to  answer  that  question,  in  order  then  to  argue  for  a  new,  gender-attentive  writing  of  the  history  of  worship.