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Feminist Theology, 2015
The article considers how the field of moral welfare and social work empowered religious women, and how these women met the challenge posed by Yeo (1998: 45), ‘to find ways of breaking the material, representational and psychic chains of subordination without reassembling them at the same time in a different form’.
Timothy Willem Jones
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The article considers how the field of moral welfare and social work empowered religious women, and how these women met the challenge posed by Yeo (1998: 45), ‘to find ways of breaking the material, representational and psychic chains of subordination without reassembling them at the same time in a different form’.
Timothy Willem Jones
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Spiritual Motherhood: German Feminists and the Kindergarten Movement, 1848-1911
History of Education Quarterly, 1982exaly +2 more sources
Chapter 5 Mothers of the Nation: Spiritual Motherhood and Organized Feminism, 1865-1877
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Chapter 3 Spiritual Motherhood and Revolution: The Beginnings of Organized Feminism, 1848-1852
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Constructing Spiritual Motherhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Gender & Society, 2019Drawing on an ethnographic study of Roman Catholic sisters in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I show how women in the Global South draw on religious imagery to redefine cultural ideals of womanhood and family responsibility. By taking the religious vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, the Congolese sisters I interviewed seemingly betray local ...
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Remembering Ɔkomfo Kwabena: ‘Motherhood’, Spirituality, and Queer Leadership in Ghana
African Historical Review, 2012Abstract This article examines how members of a community of queer men in Ghana known as Saso people remember one of their important leaders, ɔkomfo Kwabena. Based on ethnographic research in a town in the Central Region, I show how in drawing upon local Ghanaian cultural resources, including traditional leadership roles, indigenous religious practices,
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“Dearly Loved Mother Eunice”: Gender, Motherhood, and Shaker Spirituality
Church History, 1997In June 1808, at the age of fourteen, Eunice Bathrick confessed her sins and joined the Shakers (also known as the Believers), a celibate religious community founded by Ann Lee in the late eighteenth century. Although largely unknown to modern scholars, Bathrick played many roles in the Shaker village of Harvard, Massachusetts, where she lived her ...
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Physical Motherhood and spiritual motherhood between theory and practice: some Late Antique examples
2022In Late Antiquity, Christian thinking on motherhood produced a deep change of mentality: motherhood is understood by Christians to be both a gift from God and availability to welcome the gift. On the other hand, the Church Fathers open the door to another concept of motherhood: under certain conditions, any woman can become a mother of souls.
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