Spirit, faith and church : women's experiences in the English-speaking world, 17th - 21st centuries /
Contradictions are legion when it comes to women and spirituality. In Christian cultures, the worth of the female sex is highly ambivalent, since virginity and motherhood are construed respectively as badges of purity and fruitfulness, whilst the biologic.
| Други автори: | Lux-Sterritt, Laurence., Sorin, Claire. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
©2012.
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Съдържание:
- Suspicious saints: the spiritual paradox of the Daughters of Eve / Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin
- Wives, mothers, and Christians: the part played by religion as seen through some female-authored 17th-century writings / Michèle Lardy
- Clerical guidance and lived spirituality in early modern English convents / Laurence Lux-Sterritt
- Women's restricted access to Masonic spirituality in 18th-century Europe: a case of betrayal of Enlightenment ideals? / Hélène Palma
- The cultivation of conversion in the lives of 19th-century New York women / Rachel Cope
- Rationalizing women's redemptive power in Victorian America: an insight into two discourses on womanhood and domesticity / Claire Sorin
- Feminine apparations and other ghostly teleplasm: contesting and constructing womanliness in the séances of Dr. T.G. Hamilton 1918-1935 / Beth A. Robertson
- Can the female body act as mediator of the sacred? The issue of female clerics in 20th-century Britain / Églantine Jamet-Moreau
- Nun's negotiation of gender and sex in resisting the Catholic Church's positioning of them as docile spiritual mothers: a contemporary Australian/New Zealand study / Megan P. Brock
- Movement from the margins: contemporary Mormon women's visions of the mother God / Margaret M. Toscano
- "There is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female": what about the souls of black womenfolk? / Cécile Coquet-Mokoko.