women’s experiences in the English-speaking world, 17th-21st centuries
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lux-Sterritt, Laurence > (ed.)
- Creator
- Sorin, Claire > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Coquet-Mokoko, Cécile
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- religie, spiritualiteit, kerken, vrouwelijkheid, heiligen, religieuze gemeenschappen, religieuzen, vrouwen in het ambt, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This volume questions how women from the English-speaking world have negotiated their roles in the spiritual and religious spheres. From early-modern Catholics and Puritan groups to twenty-first century nuns, Anglican ministers and Mormons, how did women define their roles in male-dominated institutions? How did they react to the public perceptions of their bodies as either incompatible with or facilitating access to the divine? The questions at the core of this book hinge upon the articulation between the female self (body and soul) and its experience of the preternatural, of faith, and of institutionalized groups. Are there specific forms of female spirituality and do they lead to a feminized/feminist conception of God?