Welcome to the Religion, Culture and Gender Guides! This site has been created by Katja Stuerzenhofecker, Lecturer in Gender Studies in Religion at the University of Manchester, in collaboration with students on her level 2 undergraduate unit, Religion, Culture and Gender. The purpose of this site is to showcase the work of Manchester students on the theme of Religion, Culture and Gender in Britain, and provide a space for the development, over time, of a creative, informative and critically informed resource on this theme. You will find pages on different aspects of gender issues in Jewish and Christian communities in contemporary Britain, with contributions from individual students who have produced electronic Guides for inclusion in the archive as part of their course work. We welcome comments from people on these contributions. This site was first established in the Spring of 2014. Although at first our archive may seem rather empty, over time our aim is to develop it into an increasingly comprehensive resource of real value to a range of people beyond the University of Manchester.
Image credit: Illumination
from a 18th century Italian Jewish marriage contract showing Adam,
Eve and the serpent around the forbidden tree. John Rylands University Library of
Manchester licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0).