Cluny and Religious Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 244-264
Keyword(s):  
Religious Women

scholarly journals Evaluating the Effectiveness of Childbirth Preparation Courses on Women’s Self-Efficacy among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Religious Women in Israel

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 818
Author(s):  
Liat Korn ◽  
Gideon Koren ◽  
Ayelet Yaakov ◽  
Galit Madar ◽  
Ayala Blau
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Birth Preparation ◽  
Group A ◽  
Childbirth Preparation

Background: This study examined the effectiveness of a birth preparation course on coping with childbirth among primigravid ultra-orthodox Jewish women in Israel. Methods: In total, 130 ultra-orthodox 25–35-week primigravid women were divided into a study (n = 100, participated in birth preparation courses) and a control (n = 30, did not participate in the courses) group. A questionnaire was delivered three times: T1—before the course/delivery, T2—two–three days after delivery, and T3—a month after delivery. Results: At T3, self-efficacy among the study group was higher than in the control group. Differences in self-efficacy were found over time regardless of the group (F(2,246) = 12.83, p < 0.001), as a time–group interaction effect (F(2,246) = 10.20, p < 0.01). Self-efficacy in the study group (Mean, M = 3.40, Standard deviation, SD = 0.63 at T1) dropped to M = 3.06, SD = 0.76 at T2 and rose to M = 3.34, SD = 0.64 at T3. In the control group, self-efficacy (M = 3.53, SD = 0.56 at T1) dropped to M = 3.26, SD = 0.63 at T2 and to M = 2.95, SD = 0.76 at T3. Discussion: The childbirth preparation course was found to be effective in raising self-efficacy among primigravid ultra-orthodox religious women when compared to the control group.

Female Pilgrimage to the Middle East during Global Transformation, or How Lost Female Pilgrims in the Holy Land Fell in the Sphere of Soviet Interests

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (106)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Belyakova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Marginal Group ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
To Receive

The research focuses on establishing and personifying the rather shady and marginal group of “Russian female pilgrims” that decided to stay in the Holy Land in 1910—1920’s and caught the attention of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the formation of the state of Israel. In our research, we are introducing previously unpublished documents that give us the opportunity to examine this marginal group of elderly, religious women, who unexpectedly became acting figures in the Soviet-Israeli diplomatic relations and the Soviet struggle for Russian property in Palestine. The interest of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs in attaining property that previously belonged to institutions and representatives of the Russian Empire in Palestine naturally sparked the USSR’s keen interest in Russian nuns and female pilgrims in the region. The condition under which these women were granted Soviet citizenship was the recognition of Patriarch Alexius I of Moscow, which in itself is an expression of the new role, played by the Russian Orthodox Church under Stalinist leadership in the international (namely — Middle Eastern) arena. In this research paper we will demonstrate the mechanism of discussion and decision-making within the Soviet institutions, which pertained to the granting of a special kind of citizenship, one that officially forbade the entrance to the USSR. Among the documents published is the list of the female pilgrims, who lived in the Holy Land in 1952 and who were willing to receive Soviet citizenship.

Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Central Section ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Charles V ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Southern Netherlands

During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of ‘mixed media’ recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed gardens. They date from the time of Emperor Charles V and are unique examples of ‘anonymous’ female art, devotion and spirituality. A hortus conclusus (or enclosed garden) represents an ideal, paradisiacal world. Enclosed Gardens are retables, sometimes with painted side panels, the central section filled not only with narrative sculpture, but also with all sorts of trinkets and hand-worked textiles.Adornments include relics, wax medallions, gemstones set in silver, pilgrimage souvenirs, parchment banderoles, flowers made from textiles with silk thread, semi-precious stones, pearls and quilling (a decorative technique using rolled paper). The ensemble is an impressive and one-of-a-kind display and presents as an intoxicating garden. The sixteenth-century horti conclusi of the Mechelen Hospital sisters are recognized Masterpieces and are extremely rare, not alone at a Belgian but even at a global level. They are of international significance as they provide evidence of devotion and spirituality in convent communities in the Southern Netherlands in the sixteenth century. They are an extraordinary tangible expression of a devotional tradition. The highly individual visual language of the enclosed gardens contributes to our understanding of what life was like in cloistered communities. They testify to a cultural identity closely linked with mystical traditions allowing us to enter a lost world very much part of the culture of the Southern Netherlands. This book is the first full survey of the enclosed gardens and is the result of year-long academic research.

Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Corporeal Nature

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

scholarly journals AKAL DAN AGAMA PEREMPUAN (Perspektif Hadis Nabi dan Psikologi)

UNIVERSUM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibnu Hajar Ansori
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Hormonal Changes ◽  
Religious Women

This article is reinterpretation of hadith meaning with integration-interconnection paradigm, focusing on hadith study on thought and religion of women through psychology approach. In the hadith, the Prophet stated that almost people in hell are women; less their thought (na>qis}a>t ‘aql), and also less their religion (na>qis}a>t di>n). Contextually, this speech has gender discrimination. It consists of a meaning that women are not as smart as men, and their religion as well. it Therefore, feminists mention that there is misogyny inside. However, if is studied contextually, based on investigating the asba>b al-wuru>d, women thought psychology study, and their life reality study, it can be concluded that there is no misogyny factor inside. In contrast, there is knowledge direction that is needed to be investigated inside the speech. The findings of this study show that the change of women’s thought is related to some functions of thought that is different with men’s thought including the different of hormonal changes and its adaptation with menstruation cycles that influence some parts of thought function and decrease their roles in spiritual activities Key words: thought, religious, women, psycho-social, hadith

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