Mediality and Materiality in the History of Religions: A Medieval Case Study about Religion and Gender in In-Between Spaces

The article discusses possible terminologies for labelling historical materials. Drawing on the history of the city of Cairo around the 12th century - to the Fatimid era and to later Ayyubid times - it looks at the documents of three religions on religious infrastructure donated by women. This revea...

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主要作者: Beinhauer-Köhler, Bärbel 1967- (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie [2015]
In: Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2015, 卷: 1, 發布: 1, Pages: 65-71
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kairo / Fatimidenreich / Ayyūb, Aijubidenreich, Sultan -1249 / 宗教 / 歷史 / Mäzenin / 伊斯蘭教 / 性別角色 / 公共空間 / 網誌作者
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B in-between-spaces
B Women
B Architecture
B Media
B Christianity
B Gender
B 伊斯蘭教
B Sources
B Public Sphere
B Materiality
B Cairo
B materials
B Judaism
B New Media
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總結:The article discusses possible terminologies for labelling historical materials. Drawing on the history of the city of Cairo around the 12th century - to the Fatimid era and to later Ayyubid times - it looks at the documents of three religions on religious infrastructure donated by women. This reveals women’s ability to shape the public sphere. At least to a certain extent, the segregation of the sexes and the concept of the harem are questionable. This topic requires the reconstruction and re-reading of fragmental materials. Methodological reflections are helpful for dealing with different sources, mostly combinations of texts and archaeology, embedded in the current debate about material culture and media as well as materialization and mediation. It might seem anachronistic, but to specify these categories it is useful to compare this example with a contemporary study by Mia Lövheim on female Internet bloggers. In both cases we find women as self-confident agents in public spaces.
ISSN:2617-3697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for religion, film and media
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.25364/05.1:2015.1.7