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This book discusses hagiographical sources from Morocco taking in consideration the often-overlooked oral tradition. Orality, as is shown in this study, completes and enriches the vision of hagiography that written sources traditionally has offered. The most relevant example in this book is the high presence of female saints in oral narratives that were not included in any other written sources. Recovering oral tradition to study hagiography as well as the role of female saints in Morocco has been one of the main areas of focus in this study as well as problematizing the dependence and dialogue between written and oral culture and can help to understand the diffusion and presence of similar phenomena in other areas of Morocco.
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This engaging and accessible textbook provides an introduction to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their Hellenistic and Roman contexts.This is the first textbook dedicated to introducing women’s religious roles in Judaism and Christianity in a way that is accessible to undergraduates from all disciplines. The textbook provides brief, contextualising overviews that then allow for deeper explorations of specific topics in women’s religion, including leadership, domestic ritual, women as readers and writers of scripture, and as innovators in their traditions. Using select examples from ancient sources, the textbook provides teachers and students with the raw tools to begin their own exploration of ancient religion. An introductory chapter provides an outline of common hermeneutics or "lenses" through which scholars approach the texts and artefacts of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. The textbook also features a glossary of key terms, a list of further readings and discussion questions for each topic, and activities for classroom use. In short, the book is designed to be a complete, classroom-ready toolbox for teachers who may have never taught this subject as well as for those already familiar with it.Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean is intended for use in undergraduate classrooms, its target audience undergraduate students and their instructors, although Masters students may also find the book useful. In addition, the book is accessible and lively enough that religious communities’ study groups and interested laypersons could employ the book for their own education.
Christian women --- Jewish women --- Women in Christianity --- Women in Judaism --- Religious life --- History. --- Judaism --- History
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"Explores how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped the lives and work of Jewish and Christian women in medieval Catalan cities"--
Jewish women --- Christian women --- Notaries --- Domestic relations --- Employment --- History --- Catalonia (Spain) --- Economic conditions.
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This book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways.
Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.
Monastic and religious life of women. --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Christian women --- History --- Religious life --- Ireland --- Church history --- Religious life and customs.
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The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women's experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith.
Single women --- Church membership. --- Church attendance. --- Religious life. --- #MeToo. --- Christian women's issues. --- evangelical Christianity. --- evangelical churches. --- leaving the church. --- religious right.
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This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324–29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint’s life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such lives to be written while its subject was still living. It tells the story of a controversial woman, set against the background of her roiling city, her star-crossed family, and the tumultuous political and religious landscape of her age.Twice married, twice widowed, and twice exiled, Clare established herself as a penitent living in a roofless cell in the ruins of the Roman walls of Rimini. She sought a life of solitary self-denial, but was denounced as a demonic danger by local churchmen. Yet she also gained important and influential supporters, allowing her to establish a fledgling community of like-minded sisters. She traveled to Assisi, Urbino, and Venice, spoke out as a teacher and preacher, but also suffered a revolt by her spiritual daughters.A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy presents the text of the Life in English translation for the first time, bringing modern readers into Clare’s world in all its excitement and complexity. Each chapter opens a different window into medieval society, exploring topics from political power to marriage and sexuality, gender roles to religious change, pilgrimage to urban structures, sanctity to heresy. Through the expert guidance of scholars and translators Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo, Clare’s life and context become a springboard for readers to discover what life was like in a medieval Italian city.
Catholic women --- Catholic women. --- Christian heresies --- History --- Middle Ages. --- Clare, --- 600-1500. --- Italy --- Rimini (Italy) --- History. --- Christian saints --- History and criticism. --- Civilization --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Women, Catholic --- Christian women --- Clare of Rimini. --- Franciscan. --- Italian communes. --- Italian language. --- biography. --- denunciation. --- epiphany. --- female spirituality. --- hagiography. --- heresy. --- historical context. --- medieval women Italy history. --- religious culture. --- saints. --- saints’ lives. --- translation. --- visions.
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"Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious misfits-marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race-employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, flexible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma"--
Digital communications --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Fundamentalism --- Religious fundamentalism --- Women conservatives --- Feminism --- Feminists --- Digital media --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Political activity. --- Islam, Muslims, Muslim women, Christianity, Christian women, women, gender, feminism, activists, activism, digital activism, social media, intersectional feminism, Evangelical Christianity, religion, patriarchy, feminist theory, social justice, equality, gender equality, internet, internet activism, media, digital media, Twitter.
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