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Ecclesiology --- Christian women --- Women --- Religious life --- Congresses --- Women, Christian --- Religious life&delete& --- Christian women - Religious life - Congresses --- Women - Congresses

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For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day.In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas's hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas's texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person's life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic. Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how Thomas passionately narrates these lives even as he works through his uncertainties about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present. Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas's narrative craft in relation to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval Christianity, and medieval women's history.

Christian hagiography --- Hagiographers --- Christian women saints --- Hagiologists --- Biographers --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Thomas, --- Thomas de Cantimpré, --- Cantimpré, Thomas de, --- Tomás, --- Chantimpré, Thomas von, --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- Thomas de Cantiprato --- Christelijke hagiografie --- Geschiedenis en kritiek --- Thomas de Cantimpré (1201?-126.?) --- 2 THOMAS CANTIMPRATENSIS --- 235.3 "04/14" --- 235.3 "04/14" Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen --- 235.3 "04/14" Hagiographie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiographie--Middeleeuwen --- 2 THOMAS CANTIMPRATENSIS Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS CANTIMPRATENSIS --- Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS CANTIMPRATENSIS --- Christian hagiography - History and criticism. --- Hagiographers - Belgium - Biography. --- Christian women saints - Biography. --- Thomas Cantipratanus --- Christina Mirabilis v. --- Iohannes ab. Cantipratensis --- Thomas, - de Cantimpré, - approximately 1200-approximately 1270.

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Women and the Reformation brings together the social history and theology that surrounded the newly expanded role of women during this critical time in Christianity's history. Explores the new and expanded role as core participants in Christian life, that women experienced during the Reformation Gathers historical materials and personal accounts to provide a comprehensive and accessible look at the causes and effects of changing status of women in the church Examines diverse individual stories from women of the times, from biographical sketches of the ex-nun Katie Luther and Queen Marguerite of Navarre, to the prophetess Martha Zitterin and Henry VIII's wife Anne of Cleeves Brings together social history and theology to provide a groundbreaking volume on the theological effects that these women had on Christian spirituality Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/stjerna offering student's access to the writings by the women featured in the book.

Christian church history --- anno 1500-1599 --- Women in Christianity --- -Reformation. --- Christian women --- -284.1 "15" --- 284.2 "15" --- Women, Christian --- Women --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Christianity --- History --- -Religious life. --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--?"15" --- Calvinistische hervorming. Zwinglianisme. Hervormden--?"15" --- Reformation. --- Religious life. --- 284.2 "15" Calvinistische hervorming. Zwinglianisme. Hervormden--?"15" --- 284.1 "15" Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--?"15" --- Margaret of Navarre [Queen of Navarre] --- Albret, d', J. --- Bora, von, Katharina --- Olimpia, Fulvia Morata --- Grumbach, Von, Argula --- Elisabeth of Brandenburg --- Dentière, Marie --- Renée of France --- Zell, Katharina Schütz --- Zell, Katharina --- 284.1 "15" --- Religious life --- Gender --- Book

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The pious sex. Catholic constructions of masculinity and femininity in Belgium (c. 1800 - 1940) This study has a double goal. On the one hand it wants to improve the knowledge of Catholic constructions of masculinity and femininity in Belgium. On the other hand, by studying these gender constructions, it wants reconsider the feminisation thesis. This thesis has developed in historical research into a container term that covers various contents. It points not only at a numeric preponderance of women in the religious field, but also at content changes and at a quasi-identification of femininity and religiosity. The nineteenth-century feminisation of Christianity has been studied and documented in various European countries and denominations, but in the research on Belgian Catholicism it has not yet been a major theme. Still, Belgian society offers an interesting case as the Catholic realm covered a wide range of activities. As such, women and men could confirm their Catholic identity in both public and more private fields. This study therefore focuses on the Belgian case, and more specific on the way in which gender differentiation was created and expressed. Focus is put on the Catholic adult laity and his or her (ideal) image in the Sacred Heart devotion, Catholic Action and sermons. These perspectives offer the opportunity to point at the diversity and the flexibility of these gender constructions. The construction of the Catholic man in the discourse of the Apostolat de la Prière (a devotional movement dedicated to the Sacred Heart) for instance illustrates how masculinity and emotionality were not necessarily considered mutually exclusive. This nineteenth-century emotionally expressive masculinity therefore makes it hard to define the nineteenth-century Sacred Heart devotion as feminised on the ground of her emotionality and sentimentality, as has been suggested in other studies. Terms such as feminisation and the parallel masculinisation not only come close to an essentialist vision, they also seem to point at a kind of permanent construction of masculinity and femininity whereas in current gender research stress is put on the historical, social and geographical flexibility of gender constructions. Furthermore the stereotype of the pious sex appears to be older than the nineteenth century and it was not always used in a positive way in Catholic sources of the nineteenth- and twentieth century. The Catholic clergy noted the preponderance of women in religious practices also in the seventeenth century. The clergys observation of mens smaller interest in the religious field crystallised into a narrative of loss by the end of the nineteenth century; it incited men-oriented initiatives and (re)definitions of religion as masculine. Similar initiatives have been described in other research as masculinisation, but as indicated this term is confusing. In order to be able to grasp in historical research this special attention for mens involvement, this study suggests stepping away from the somewhat confining terms feminisation and masculinisation and put the emphasis on differentiation instead, the creation of the difference. This offers the opportunity to describe the increasing attention for gender difference as can be remarked in the evolution of the mixed Apostolat de la Prière movement into the gender-exclusive Leagues of the Sacred Heart. Moreover, men do not necessarily have to oppose women: Catholic men can be compared to other men, e.g. socialist men. By shifting the attention towards differentiation, other categories such as class can receive ample attention and e.g. the evolution of the originally workers-oriented L

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Christian moral theology --- Christian church history --- anno 1800-1999 --- Belgium --- Christian women --- Sex role --- Masculinity --- Chrétiennes --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Masculinité --- History --- Conduct of life --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Christianity. --- Histoire --- Morale pratique --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Belgique --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- gender --- katholieke organisaties --- Sex differences --- Catholic Church --- Église catholique --- Différences entre sexes --- Academic collection --- C1 --- katholicisme --- religieuzen --- Katholieke Actie --- mannen (x) --- vrouwen --- devotie --- KADOC - Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving (1977-) --- 248 <493> --- 274.93 --- Kerken en religie --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--België --- Religion Christian Church history Europe Belgium --- Theses --- Chrétiennes --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Masculinité --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Sex --- 1800-1945 --- Gender identity --- Église catholique. --- Sex role - Religious aspects - Catholic Church --- Sex differences - Religious aspects - Catholic Church --- Gender --- Family --- Gender roles --- Men --- Organizations --- Religion --- Attitudes --- Images of women --- Féminité --- Book

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Christian church history --- Thecla Iconii --- Felicitas Tuburbi --- Perpetua Tuburbi --- anno 1-499 --- Christian women martyrs --- 235.3*7 --- 27 "00/02" --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- Women Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- History --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Felicity, --- Perpetua, --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Perpétue, --- Vibia Perpetua, --- Felicitas, --- Félicité, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Passio S. Perpetuae --- Passio Sanctae Perpetuae --- Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Passion des saintes Perpétue et Félicité --- Passion of S. Perpetua --- Passion of St. Perpetua --- Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity MM. --- Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Perpetua --- Perpétue --- Vibia Perpetua --- Felicitas --- Félicité --- Felicity