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

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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.
Temas:
Women in the Catholic Church
Nuns
Feminist theology
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
Theologie feministe.
Femmes dans l'Église catholique.
Religieuses > Belgique > Histoire.
Feminist theology.
Women in the Catholic Church.
Nuns > Belgium > History.
Belgium
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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