Modern Carmelite Nuns and Contemplative Identities - Shaping Spirituality in the Netherlands

This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society.

About the author

Brian Heffernan is a historian of religion who has published on modern Catholicism in Ireland and the Netherlands

Summary

This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Brian Heffernan, Heffernan Brian
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781526177209
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7720-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Spirituality, 20th Century, RELIGION / Christianity / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Netherlands, History of Religion, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church