Redefining Female Religious Life - French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism

Informationen zum Autor Laurence Lux-Sterritt is lecturer at the Département des Etudes du Monde Anglophone, Université de Provence I, France. Klappentext This book explores two seventeenth-century female congregations that became, in France and England, the embodiment of new feminine efforts to become actively involved in the Catholic Reformation. Despite the differences in their national political and religious backgrounds, both the French Ursulines and the Institute of English Ladies shared the same aim. They wanted to revitalize the links between the Catholic faith and the people, reaching out of the cloister and into the world by educating girls who would later become wives and mothers. Zusammenfassung In an effort to avoid polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, this book analyses the reasons which led early-modern women to found new congregations with active vocations. Were these novel communities born out of their founders' rejection of the conventual model? Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; The birth of the new phenomenon of the teaching nun; The improper institutions of troublesome women; Religious change and the politics of gender; Serving the Church in the classroom; Pushing the boundaries of female ministry; Serving Martha and Mary: Modus Vivendi; Modernity and tradition: imitating the cloister; To leave God for God's sake: the apostolate as self-abnegation; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Lux-Sterritt Laurence
• Verlag: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.11.2005
• EAN: 9780754637165
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3716-5
• Seiten: 246
• Serie: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; England, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women, Church history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1600 To C 1700