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Ordinary saints : women, work, and faith in Newfoundland /
"From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as labourers within the family economy. Women's work in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "They worked harder than the men": The context of Anglican Women's Lives in Mid-1900s Conception Bay
- Families that work together, worship together: the practice of everyday religion in Anglican households
- "Everything was for Sunday": Living the Holy days
- "We had lots of trouble": Mixed marriages, women's conversion, and religious experimentation
- "Aunt Dorcas and the babies Was a revered thing": Midwifery, childbirth, and embodied religious practices
- "Our sisters ... placed bows of ribbon in her grave": Exploring women-led funeral rituals
- "We Must Not Weep for a sister deceased": Women, Christian consolation, and Imagining eternity
- "Something good had been accomplished": Women, cultures of Suffering, and Acts of Christian mercy
- Apron Christianity: Textile production, devotional practice, and the expression of benevolent mutuality
- "Do You Mean catering?": Food, fellowship, and the domestication of Anglican Church women
- Conclusion: "Christianity Conceived": Women's theological cultures of Anglican Conception Bay.