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Beyond the Altar

Christine L.M. Gervais
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Author : Christine L.M. Gervais
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781771122962

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Beyond the Altar illustrates how women religious overcome sexist subjugation by side-stepping the patriarchal power of the Roman Catholic Church. This book counters the stereotypical image of Catholic nuns as being loyally compliant with their church by showing how a number of current and former women religious in Canada challenge their institutional religion’s precepts and engage in transformative strategies to effect change both within and outside the Roman Catholic Church. The sisters’ testimonials reveal never-before-shared details about their painful experiences of male domination, their courageous efforts to move beyond such sexist stifling, and the women-led and women-centered spiritual, governance, and activist practices they have engendered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Featuring many examples of the sisters’ resourcefulness, resilience, and resistance, this book fills a void in international scholarship on what Canadian Catholic women religious have endured and accomplished. Through interviews and in-depth accounts of the complexities and nuances present in the current and former sisters’ lives, readers will discover their steadfast indomitability as they strategically, and sometimes subversively, innovate their spiritual spaces.

Women's Religious Experience (RLE Women and Religion)

Pat Holden
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Author : Pat Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317590255

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Most of the early literature concerning women’s religious experience is about exceptional women; those who diverged from the traditional female role to become nuns, mystics or charismatic leaders. While women were permitted to be prophets and visionaries they rarely played an important part in church organisation. This paradox is explored in this book and a number of themes emerge: in particular, the dominance of male symbolism within the great religions. The question of whether men and women apprehend religious systems and signs in the same way is also explored. In considering the contemporary scene, the book is able to look at the ways in which religion affects the lives of women in different societies and in different historical periods; this gives us a larger view of the ways in which our own perceptions of ‘femaleness’ have been constructed out of the religious world views of both the past and the present. First Published in 1983.

Jesuit Post

Patrick Gilger
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Author : Patrick Gilger
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608334483

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Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

In Our Own Words

Juliet Mousseau,Sarah Kohles
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Author : Juliet Mousseau,Sarah Kohles
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814645444

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Written by a diverse group of younger women religious from North America, In Our Own Words offers a collection of essays on issues central to apostolic religious life today. The thirteen authors represent different congregations, charisms, ministries, and histories. The topics and concerns that shape these chapters emerged naturally through a collaborative process of prayer and conversation. Essays focus on the vows and community life, individual identity and congregational charisms, and leadership among younger members leading into the future. The authors hope these chapters may form a springboard for further conversation on religious life, inviting others to share their experiences of religious life in today’s world.

Why Are Women More Religious Than Men?

Marta Trzebiatowska,Steve Bruce
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Author : Marta Trzebiatowska,Steve Bruce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198709722

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"Women are more religious than men. Despite being excluded from leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and to claim that their faith is important to them. Women also dominate the world of 'New Age' spirituality and are far more superstitious than men. This book reviews the now-sizeable body of social research to consider if the gender gap in religion is indeed universal. Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce extensively critique competing explanations of the differences found. They conclude that the gender gap is not the result of biology but is rather the consequence of important social differences overlapping and reinforcing each other. Responsibility for managing birth, child-rearing and death, for example, and attitudes to the body, illness, and health, each play a part. In the West, the gender gap is exaggerated because the social changes that undermined the plausibility of religion bore most heavily on men first. Where the lives of men and women become more similar, and where religious indifference grows, the gender gap gradually disappears. Written in an accessible style whilst drawing some robust conclusions, the book's main purpose is to serve as a state-of-the-artreview for those interested in one of the largest differences between male and female behaviour."--Dust jacket.

Prophets in Their Own Country

Sandra Marie Schneiders
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Author : Sandra Marie Schneiders
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608330737

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These reflections, based on a series published in The National Catholic Reporter, were inspired by the Vatican's announcement of an "Apostolic Visitation" of U.S. Women Religious from 2009-2011. Given the unmistakable imputation of guilt, the launch of this investigation was troubling to many women religious. Schneiders uses this occasion to articulate anew the meaning of Religious Life, the biblical theology underlying it, the reasons for the renewal undertaken after Vatican II, and the forms of apostolic Religious Life that have developed through this renewal. While her introduction tells the story of the investigation and the response it has generated, the following essays offer an eloquent and inspiring assessment and apologia for Religious Life today and in the future. It is a book addressed to all members of the church, calling us to live our faith in a spirit of integrity, freedom, and courage.

What Happens When Women Walk in Faith

Lysa TerKeurst
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Author : Lysa TerKeurst
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736972642

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What Happens When Women Walk in Faith by Lysa TerKeurst Pdf

What if the next big step God wants you to take is actually small? Stepping into the assignments the Lord has for us and pursuing the dreams He's placed in our hearts can feel overwhelming and exhilarating all at the same time. But walking in His will begins with our daily obedience to Him. Lysa TerKeurst knows what it means to walk by faith and encourages you to discover the deeply personal truths of God's Word for your calling. What Happens When Women Walk in Faith is filled with stories and Scripture that will help you apply practical, Biblical truths to your life and equip you to: Discover 5 phases of your faith walk and embrace the direction that the Lord is leading you. Identify one area where you can draw a line in the sand and take a step toward something new. Be prepared for God to use your small steps of faith to unleash His work and wonder in your life. No matter what God has called you to, you can take this first step!

Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650

Haruko Nawata Ward
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Author : Haruko Nawata Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351871815

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Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 by Haruko Nawata Ward Pdf

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government's commitment to the eradication of Christianity in the mid-seventeenth century, this book outlines how women provided crucial leadership in the spread, nurture, and maintenance of the faith through various apostolic ministries. The author's research on the religious backgrounds of women from different schools of late medieval Japanese Shinto-Buddhism sheds light on individual women's choices to embrace or reject the Reformed Catholicism of the Jesuits, and explores the continuity and discontinuity of their religious expressions. The book is divided into four sections devoted to an in-depth study of different types of apostolates: nuns (women who took up monastic vocations), witches (the women leaders of the Shinto-Buddhist tradition who resisted Jesuit teachings), catechists (women who engaged in ministries of persuasion and conversion), and sisters (women devoted to missions of mercy). Analyzing primary sources including Jesuit histories, letters and reports, especially Luís Fróis' História de Japão, hagiography and family chronicles, each section provides a broad understanding of how these women, in the context of misogynistic society and theology, utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues, creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism. The inclusion of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese texts, many available for the first time in English, and the dramatic conclusion that women were largely responsible for the trajectory of Christianity in early modern Japan, makes this book an essential reading for scholars of women's history, religious history, history of Christianity, and Asian history.

The Foundations of Religious Life

Council of Superiors of Women Religious
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Author : Council of Superiors of Women Religious
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Monastic and religious life of women
ISBN : 1594711984

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In keeping with the vision set forth in Vatican II, the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious has maintained a more traditional form of religious life. While most religious orders are now facing marked decline in novitiates and the aging of their members, the communities of the CMSWR are experiencing growth on a worldwide scale. In this visionary manifesto, the CMSWR articulates a vision for the future of women religious, suggesting that their commitment to a more radical gospel-based life and ministry is what attracts young women to religious life. The contributors explain the historical and theological significance of religious consecration, the spousal bond, the vow of chastity, and living in communion. This concise outline of traditional religious life is ideal reading for sisters as well as priests already in religious orders, and for those interested in the shift taking place in the different expressions of religious life.

Ordaining Women

Mark Chaves
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Author : Mark Chaves
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674641469

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In a revealing examination of the complex interrelationship of religion, social forces, and organizational structure, Ordaining Women draws examples and data from over 100 Christian denominations to explore the meaning of institutional rules about women's ordination.

Women v. Religion

Karen L. Garst
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Author : Karen L. Garst
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781634311717

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Women v. Religion by Karen L. Garst Pdf

Throughout history, religion has been used as a tool of female subjugation. Women have been deemed less worthy than men, have been prevented from owning property, and worse—all in the name of a higher power. In recent decades, women have made progress in terms of equal rights with men, at least in Western democracies, but still, why has the United States never had a female president? Why aren't more women heads of Fortune 500 companies? Why do politicians in the West continue to attack women's reproductive rights? As this volume explores, it would be hard to find a bigger culprit than religion when identifying the last cultural barriers to full gender equality. With topics ranging from the subjugation of women in the Bible to the shame and guilt felt by women due to religious teaching, this volume makes clear that only by rejecting the very system that limits their autonomy will women be fully liberated from its malignant influences, not just in codified law but also in cultural practice.

Sisters Are Doing What?!!

Regina Coll
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Author : Regina Coll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585953237

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Providing insights into the development of religious life in the last two centuries, this title introduces some amazing women and their communities who have gradually and courageously broken away from the contemplative model of religious life to meet contemporary needs.

The Religious Imagination of American Women

Mary Farrell Bednarowski
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Author : Mary Farrell Bednarowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253213389

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"Explores five ideas that animate the theological imagination of women in religious communities throughout America: ambivalence toward tradition; the immanence, or indwelling, of the divine; the sacredness of the ordinary and the ordinariness of the sacred; the vision of the universe as a web of relationships; and healing as a central function of religion"--back cover.

The Religious History of American Women

Catherine A. Brekus
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Author : Catherine A. Brekus
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807867993

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The Religious History of American Women by Catherine A. Brekus Pdf

More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary--how do these women's stories change our understanding of American religious history and American women's history? In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how considering the religious history of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics--including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment--the volume enhances our understanding of both religious history and women's history. Taken together, these essays sound the call for a new, more inclusive history. Contributors: Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago Divinity School Anthea D. Butler, University of Rochester Emily Clark, Tulane University Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University Susanna Morrill, Lewis and Clark College Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College Pamela S. Nadell, American University Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon Marilyn J. Westerkamp, University of California, Santa Cruz

Springs of Water

Mary Jo Weaver
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Author : Mary Jo Weaver
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807012192

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"One of our most insightful feminist thinkers, Mary Jo Weaver here charts the difficult spiritual terrain facing women alienated from their religious background but searching for alternatives within it. Liberation theology, Process throught, Goddess worship, male and female visionaries from the past, Catholic women's communities at the present time, issues of gender and ordination: all are explored with lucidity, tact, and intelligence." —Susan Gubar, co-author, The Madwoman in the Attic "Beautifully written, and highly readable." —National Catholic Reporte