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Humble Women, Powerful Nuns : A Female Struggle for Autonomy in a Men's Church /

Nineteenth-century female congregation founders could achieve levels of autonomy, power and prestige that were beyond reach for most women of their time. With a subject hidden for a long time behind a curtain of modesty and mystery, this book recounts the fascinating but ambiguous life stories of fo...

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Autor principal: Suenens, Kristien (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven : Leuven UP, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Humble Women -- COV -- Def -- 9789461663276 -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, ROMANTICISM AND FEMALE ACTION IN A POST-REVOLUTIONARY AGE: FOUR YOUNG WOMEN(ca. 1820-ca. 1860) -- 'FOREMOTHERS', REVOLUTIONS AND REVIVAL(ca. 1820-ca. 1848) -- The female pioneers of the revival -- Ambiguous images of women -- Aut maritus, aut murus? Between marriage and the convent -- FEMALE RELIGIOUSENTREPRENEURSHIPON THE OFFENSIVE(ca. 1848-ca. 1860) -- Religious education: the female voice of the revival -- The need for male support -- Enterprising and discursive mechanisms 
505 0 |a Social and political tensions and female agency -- THE SPIRITUAL DIALECTICOF REVIVAL DEVOTION -- "L'eucharistie peut sauver le monde" -- A plurality of devotional practices and ascetic self-denial -- A passion paradigm -- Female saints as role models -- PART IIFEMALE AGENCYAT A TURNING POINT:FOUR CONGREGATIONFOUNDERS(1857-1867) -- BETWEEN LONGINGAND COERCIONSPIRITUAL PARTNERSHIPS -- "Une religieuse, c'est une paroisse": frustration and appreciation -- Jesuits: irresistible and unavoidable -- SOULMATES AND RIVALS. THE POWER(LESSNESS)OF FEMALE ALLIANCES -- The convent as a place of refuge 
505 0 |a An alternative family unit: ambiguous female bondingon a micro level -- "Autel contre autel": the limits of a wider female coalition -- MECHELEN AND ROME. NORMATIVE IDENTITY ANDECCLESIASTICAL POSITIONING -- Sterckx's pragmatic policy -- Basic feminine inspiration -- Male implementation -- Containing the revival: the struggle with the contemplativelegacy -- The crowning accomplishment: a Roman approval -- PART III. FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP IN ANULTRAMONTANE CHURCH: FOUR CONVENT SUPERIORS(ca. 1865-ca. 1885) -- BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY. CHARISMA AND NUMBERS 
505 0 |a The story behind two typical congregations -- "Les Dames illusionnees": ambitions and criticism -- CONVENTS AND CASTLES. AN UNEASY ALLIANCE -- In the grip of ultramontane elites -- A forced turn to the countryside -- "Au comble du bonheur": women for women -- The female alliance challenged -- CRUSADING IN A CONVENT HABIT -- A modern apostolate, conservative ideas -- Female agency, the European culture wars and themissionary drive -- The inevitability of the crusade: the School War (1879-1884) -- The challenge of social Catholicism 
505 0 |a Victims and religious entrepreneurs: the spiritual dynamics ofultramontanism -- "PAS ASSEZ FEMME"? FEMALE LEADERSHIPIN WOMEN'S CONVENTS -- "Une hostie vivante": institutionalised self-denial -- Internal power balances -- Lay sisters: women among women -- "DOMINA ISTA VALDEFACUNDA EST". FEMALE LEADERSHIPIN A MALE CHURCH -- A double-voiced 'conventualisation' -- Gender, power and freedom of conscience:the confessor issue -- Roman feminism? -- EPILOGUE. THE SHAPING OF PERCEPTIONS -- Fanny Kestre: an active "femme forte", a spiritual"âme simple" -- Antoinette Cornet: between oblivion and rediscovery 
520 8 |a Nineteenth-century female congregation founders could achieve levels of autonomy, power and prestige that were beyond reach for most women of their time. With a subject hidden for a long time behind a curtain of modesty and mystery, this book recounts the fascinating but ambiguous life stories of four Belgian religious women. A close reading of their personal writings unveils their conflicted existence: ambitious, engaged and bold on the one hand, suffering and isolated on the other, they were both victims and promotors of a nineteenth-century ideal of female submission. As religious and social entrepreneurs these women played an influential role in the revival of the church and the development of education, health care and social provisions in modern Belgium. But, equally well, they were bound to rigid gender patterns and adherents of an ultramontane church ideology that fundamentally distrusted modern society. 
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