What Gender Does to Religious Institutions: Reflections on Women’s Religious Congregations in the Nineteenth Century
Recently, significant contributions to the study of religion and gender have been made, as evidenced by Belgian and Dutch literature, amongst others. Joan W. Scott has pointed out that, in these studies, gender is expressed and analyzed as a multi-layered concept - it can represent power, social ins...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
2021
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Trajecta
Year: 2021, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 243-265 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodology
B Gender History B Catholic Church B Catholicism B female religious congregations |
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| Summary: | Recently, significant contributions to the study of religion and gender have been made, as evidenced by Belgian and Dutch literature, amongst others. Joan W. Scott has pointed out that, in these studies, gender is expressed and analyzed as a multi-layered concept - it can represent power, social institutions, or organization. It can express ideas of subjective identity and what is normative. This article explores religious female congregations of the Catholic Church in the first half of the nineteenth century and focuses on power relationships. It unpacks the use of gender in religious history and demonstrates that a gendered history of Catholic institutions is possible even when men define the institutional framework and exclude the women who are, in fact, already a part of it. |
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| ISSN: | 2665-9484 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Trajecta
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5117/TRA2021.2.002.BART |