Spirit, faith and church
Subtitle: women's experiences in the English-speaking world, 17th - 21st centuries
By: edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781443834650
Subjects: Women and religion; History; Christian women; Women in Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Suspicious saints: the spiritual paradox of the Daughters of Eve / Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin; title: Wives, mothers, and Christians: the part played by religion as seen through some female-authored 17th-century writings / Michèle Lardy; title: Clerical guidance and lived spirituality in early modern English convents / Laurence Lux-Sterritt; title: Women's restricted access to Masonic spirituality in 18th-century Europe: a case of betrayal of Enlightenment ideals? / Hélène Palma; title: The cultivation of conversion in the lives of 19th-century New York women / Rachel Cope; title: Rationalizing women's redemptive power in Victorian America: an insight into two discourses on womanhood and domesticity / Claire Sorin; title: Feminine apparations and other ghostly teleplasm: contesting and constructing womanliness in the séances of Dr. T. G. Hamilton 1918-1935 / Beth A. Robertson; title: Can the female body act as mediator of the sacred? The issue of female clerics in 20th-century Britain / Églantine Jamet-Moreau; title: 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; title: Movement from the margins: contemporary Mormon women's visions of the mother God / Margaret M. Toscano; title: "There is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female": what about the souls of black womenfolk? / Cécile Coquet-Mokoko.