Androprimacy: A New Analytical Concept for the Study of Gender and Religion with Case Studies from the Ethiopic Didəsqəlya and the Greek Apostolic Constitutions
This article introduces a new analytical concept for the study of religion and gender that I term “androprimacy” by examining its specific instantiation in two early Christian sources, the Ethiopic Didəsqəlya and the Greek Apostolic Constitutions. These texts were concerned with the governance of Ch...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Religion & gender
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 195-213 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Äthiopische Didaskalie
/ Apostolic Constitutions
/ Man (Motif)
/ Dominance (motif) (Motif)
/ Early Christianity (motif)
/ Social structure
/ Gender
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBK Europe (East) KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
androprimacy
B Feminism B Theory B Early Christianity B Apostolic Constitutions B Religious Studies B Ethiopic Didascalia B Gender |
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| Summary: | This article introduces a new analytical concept for the study of religion and gender that I term “androprimacy” by examining its specific instantiation in two early Christian sources, the Ethiopic Didəsqəlya and the Greek Apostolic Constitutions. These texts were concerned with the governance of Christian domestic and ecclesiastical bodies. I maintain that androprimacy is qualitatively different than, but interrelated with, other concepts and social structures of sexism, oppression, and marginalization that enables us to understand social anisometric dynamics predicated along the lines of sexual difference better. Particularly, I examine how narratives of androprimacy are used to legitimate other sexist structures, such as patriarchy and misogyny, by strategies of female erasure and the neutralization of motherhood. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01201005 |
