Other Factors Influencing Religious Vocations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thu T. Do
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Religious Vocation ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Religious Vocations ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

This chapter presents an overview of aspects that may influence women and men religious on their religious vocational decision during their childhood with their family and parish, their attendance of primary and secondary school, their participation in parish life, and their college years. The influential aspects addressed are: attending Mass regularly and devotional practices, having the opportunity to discuss and receive encouragement from others to discern a religious vocation, the witness of men and women religious, and being engaged in youth and voluntary ministry programs. The chapter concludes that while not every individual religious has opportunities to experience these activities in various environments before he or she decides to enter religious life, all the aspects complement one another and have an impact on religious vocational discernment and decision-making.

The Influences of College Experiences on Religious Vocations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thu T. Do
Keyword(s):  
College Experiences ◽  
Campus Ministry ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
Religious Vocation ◽  
College Roommates ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
Religious Vocations

This chapter presents different aspects of college environment that had an impact on men’s and women’s religious vocation while they were in college. Based on CARA studies from 2012 and 2014 in which respondents entering religious life answered questions about their backgrounds, these aspects include witnessing religious vocation, Mass participation, spiritual direction, college service programs, devotional and spiritual practices, campus ministry, college roommates and friends, and encouragement and discouragement of vocational discernment while on campus. The chapter presents the differences in these various aspects between religious members attending Catholic and non-Catholic colleges and universities. It also discusses the different influences for men and women on their discernment of a religious vocation.

The Influences of Families on Religious Vocations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Wittberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Religious Vocation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Vocations ◽  
Diocesan Priests

This chapter is based on several national surveys of U.S. Catholics that CARA conducted, as well as a 2015 survey commissioned by the National Religious Vocation Conference of the members of men’s and women’s religious orders, diocesan priests and seminarians, and their families. It explores the differences between the families of priests, seminarians, and religious order members and other Catholic families by covering the family religious backgrounds and practices of priests and religious and whether other family members encouraged or discouraged discernment of a religious or priestly vocation. Also covered are the misconceptions that family members had of the priesthood and religious life and the worries they expressed about the future.

Negotiating religious change and conflict: Female religious communities in early modern Ireland, c.1530–c.1641

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronagh A. McShane
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
Religious Vocations

This article explores how communities of female religious within the English sphere of influence in Ireland negotiated their survival, firstly in the aftermath of the Henrician dissolution campaigns of the late 1530s and 1540s and thereafter down to the early 1640s. It begins by examining the strategies devised by women religious in order to circumvent the state’s proscription of vocational living in the aftermath of the Henrician suppression campaigns. These ranged from clandestine continuation of conventual life to the maintenance of informal religious vows within domestic settings. It then moves on to consider the modes of migration and destinations of Irish women who, from the late sixteenth century onwards, travelled to the Continent in pursuit of religious vocations, an experience they shared with their English counterparts. Finally, it considers how the return to Ireland from Europe of Irish Poor Clare nuns in 1629 signalled the revival of monastic life for women religious on the island. The article traces the importance of familial and clerical patronage networks to the ongoing survival of Irish female religious communities and highlights their role in sustaining Catholic devotional practices, which were to prove vital to the success of the Counter-Reformation mission in seventeenth-century Ireland.

Integrating gender in rice research

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (Special) ◽  
pp. 164-168
Author(s):  
BN Sadangi ◽  
Biswajit Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Work Participation ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Planning Project ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
And Gender

Gender mainstreaming in agriculture is new trend to address the inequalities of resources and work participation between men and women for ensuring equity in gender. Though women constitute about half of the total agricultural labour, their access to resources as well as decision making power is limited. Particularly, women in rice-based farming system though undertake hard work, own or share very limited resources and benefits in comparison to other systems. Various needs of women, while undertake research and technologies developed should be addressed appropriately through gender focussed planning, project implementation, monitoring as well as impact assessment. A systematic understanding and capacity building of the planners, researchers, development and extension machineries on innovative mechanism and gender sensitive perspectives would bring socioeconomic upliftment of not only women but the whole society.

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