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Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 6, Page 1097-1116, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The influence of religious groups in democratic policy making has often been a source of political controversy. In the United Kingdom, the legalization of same‐sex marriage in England and Wales may in some ways be thought to exemplify the weakening social position and policy power of the churches.
Daniel Gover
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 623-643, December 2021., 2021 This article aims to study the history of the Centres for the Promotion of Women in relation to the changing religious and gender identities of Spanish women. The first centre was founded by the lay organisation Catholic Action Women in 1959 and similar centres quickly spread across the country, giving access to basic education to many women from a ...
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Women on top: Coital positions and gender hierarchies in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 638-657, September 2021., 2021 Abstract According to Christian theology, the ‘missionary’ position was the only proper way to have sex. Among clerical as well as secular authors, one of the most serious deviations from this prescription was the position with the woman on top of the man.
Marlisa Den Hartog
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Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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¿Secularización o reforma? Los orígenes religiosos del matrimonio civil en México
Hispania Sacra, 2016 Apoyado en la tesis sobre la “Reforma imprevista” de Brad S. Gregory, este ensayo sostiene que la Ley mexicana del Matrimonio Civil de 1859 debe interpretarse como un esfuerzo de reforma social concebido en un marco fundamentalmente religioso –aunque ...
Pablo Mijangos y González
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Hispania Sacra, 2004 Existe un conjunto de cánones occidentales, datados entre los siglos V y VI, dedicados las segundas nupcias de la viuda de clérigo. Todos ellos se muestran contrarios a las mismas, regulando una serie de medidas en respuesta.
Jesús Gutiérrez Pardina
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Cuestiones Teológicas, 2017 El presente artículo expone la actitud de la Iglesia Católica colombiana durante las denominadas hegemonías liberal y conservadora, correspondientes al período histórico comprendido entre 1930 y 1953.
Daniel Turriago Rojas
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Cuestiones Teológicas, 2020 El presente artículo expone la actitud de la Iglesia Católica colombiana durante las denominadas hegemonías liberal y conservadora, correspondientes al período histórico comprendido entre 1930 y 1953.
Daniel Turriago Rojas
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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