Spirit, faith and church : women's experiences in the English-speaking world, 17th - 21st centuries /: women's experiences in the English-speaking world, 17th - 21st centuries. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin.
• Other Names: Lux-Sterritt, Laurence; Sorin, Claire
• Contents: Suspicious saints: the spiritual paradox of the Daughters of Eve / Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin -- Wives, mothers, and Christians: the part played by religion as seen through some female-authored 17th-century writings / Michèle Lardy -- Clerical guidance and lived spirituality in early modern English convents / Laurence Lux-Sterritt -- Women's restricted access to Masonic spirituality in 18th-century Europe: a case of betrayal of Enlightenment ideals? / Hélène Palma -- The cultivation of conversion in the lives of 19th-century New York women / Rachel Cope -- Rationalizing women's redemptive power in Victorian America: an insight into two discourses on womanhood and domesticity / Claire Sorin -- Feminine apparations and other ghostly teleplasm: contesting and constructing womanliness in the séances of Dr. T. G. Hamilton 1918-1935 / Beth A. Robertson -- Can the female body act as mediator of the sacred? The issue of female clerics in 20th-century Britain / Églantine Jamet-Moreau -- 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 -- Movement from the margins: contemporary Mormon women's visions of the mother God / Margaret M. Toscano -- "There is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female": what about the souls of black womenfolk? / Cécile Coquet-Mokoko.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (255 pages)
• Subjects: 200.82; Gender studies: women; Women and religion -- History; Christian women -- History; Women in Christianity -- History; Religious life & practice; Spirituality & religious experience
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443834896
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