Influenced by feminist theology, feminist christians in Flanders aimed at a'feminisation' of christian religion. Compared with the 'feminisation' of religionin the nineteenth century, there are differences as well as similarities incontent. Nevertheless, the context in which the gender construction of feministchristians is placed, has changed radically. In the nineteenth century,women were still associated with the private sphere, while in the 1960s and1970s, the 'second feminist wave' refused the connection of male and publicon the one hand, and women and private on the other hand. Consequently,the 'feminisation' of christian religion of feminist christians was also appliedto more 'public' aspects of christian faith, such as theology, church governmentand church history. It's also remarkable that the way of believing of feministchristians was clearly influenced by the dechristianised society in whichthey lived. Consequently, the phenomenon of feminist christians doesn't contradictCalum Browns thesis that women, rejecting christian discourse as acornerstone of their identity, caused dechristianisation in the 1960s.
