Silent Women Will Never Be Heard

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-301
Author(s):  
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Women ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Church

Many active Catholic women are not allowing the hierarchy to ignore the controversial question of the woman's role in the church today. Activist Ada Maŕia Isasi-Díaz was part of a group of women at Puebla and discusses the feminine presence there.

Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sterne
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Americans ◽  
Lay Societies ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time

This chapter maintains that Catholic parishes were the most accessible and important institutions in Providence's ethnic, working-class neighborhoods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that as such, they played critical roles in politicizing new Americans. It was at church that the largest proportion of immigrants congregated on a regular basis. Parishes functioned not only as sources of spiritual solace but also as dispensers of charity, promoters of upward mobility, and centers of neighborhood life. Priests initially promoted lay societies to foster congregational loyalties, but over time the groups also served as political organizing spaces for Catholic women and men. For many, the Church served as a place where new Americans organized for change.

scholarly journals The Verses about Sofei in the Stishnoi Prolog from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome

Slovene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 377-393
Author(s):  
Maria B. Pliukhanova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Part ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Lives Of Saints ◽  
Divine Wisdom ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Similar Text

This article is a publication, with commentary, of the text about Divine Wisdom from the Stishnoi Prolog, a Synaxarium with verses. It was conserved in the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (Slavo 5), now in the Vatican Library; the manuscript dates from the beginning of the 16th century, and it originates from Novgorod or Pskov. This codex is well known among Slavists, who have expressed various contradictory judgments about its content. A series of texts—verses and lives of saints—have no analogues in other manuscripts. The source also contains some strange errors, even absurdities. On fol. 185 prayer verses are entered without a title; in other words, they have no relation to any specific event of the Church calendar. The prayer consists mainly of quotations. The first part, which is the beginning of the Great Doxology, does not glorify the Trinity but rather it glorifies Sophia, using the Novgorod masculine form Sofei. The final part of the prayer quotes Ps 146:5 on the greatness of the Lord. The middle part is a free variation on the theme of the paths in Sir 24. A similar text is in one of the manuscripts of Euphrosynus of Beloozero. The prayer can be correlated with the controversy about the nature of Sophia that began in Novgorod at the turn of the 15th–16th centuries and that is most definitely reflected in a later work, the Authentic Story about What Is Sofei, the Wisdom of God. By selecting the “Lords” citations, the author of the prayer seems to argue against the tendency to identify Sophia with Our Lady. In the fragment using the motifs from Sirach, there are grammatical ambiguities that can be interpreted as a desire to avoid the use of the feminine in relation to Wisdom. The cultural status of this text can be compared with paraliturgical inscriptions from Novgorod studied by Tatiana Rozhdestvenskaya.

scholarly journals La enfermería femenina del área de medicina del Hospital de las Cinco Llagas de Sevilla en los siglos XVI al XVIIIFemale Nurses in the Medicine Area of the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas in Seville in the XVI and XVIII Centuries

2016 ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Paula Ermila Rivasplata Varillas
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Female Nurse ◽  
Female Nurses ◽  
The Church ◽  
De Medicina

RESUMEN En el Antiguo Régimen ibérico, los hospitales fueron de las pocas instituciones que se caracterizaron por la especialización del trabajo femenino, convirtiéndose en lugares de refugio y de opción de vida para muchas mujeres que demostraban dedicación absoluta al hospital. En este contexto, la hipótesis planteada es que en un hospital regido por religiosos como fue el de las Cinco Llagas de Sevilla, se esquematizó el trabajo femenino del cuidado, caracterizado por el control, la prohibición y la separación de sexos. De tal manera que creó un reducto cerrado de la visibilidad pública de las labores realizadas por las enfermeras en una institución amparada por la Iglesia. La metodología utilizada fue la heurística y la hermenéutica de las fuentes primarias consultadas en el Archivo de la Diputación Provincial de Sevilla.   PALABRAS CLAVE: enfermeras, mujeres, Antiguo Régimen, Hospital de las Cinco Llagas, Sevilla   ABSTRACT In the Iberian Old Regime, hospitals were among the few institutions that were characterized by specialization of women’s work where the female nurse could develop freely, and they became places of refuge and life choice for many women who showed absolute dedication to the hospital. In this context, the raised hypothesis is that, in a hospital governed by religious as it was that of las Cinco Llagas of Seville, it was outlined the feminine work of the care, characterized by the control, the prohibition and the separation of sexes. In such a way that this hospital sheltered ill women and needed other women to work both in domestic and medical activities, creating a place closed to public visibility of the job done by these women in an institution protected by the church. The methodology used was heuristics and hermeneutics of primary sources consulted in the Archivo de la Diputación Provincial of Seville.   KEY WORDS: nurses, women, Old Regime, Hospital de las Cinco Llagas, Sevilla

scholarly journals "Imago expandit splendorem suum". Hildegard of Bingen’s Visio-Theological Designs in the Rupertsberg Scivias Manuscript

Eikon / Imago ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-68
Author(s):  
Nathaniel M. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Hildegard Of Bingen ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
Visual Markers ◽  
Original Manuscript ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Color Scheme ◽  
Feminine Divine ◽  
The Church ◽  
Significant Point

A significant point of  contention within  studies of  the twelfth-century visionary saint and Doctor of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen, is the question of her role in the production of the illuminated Scivias manuscript known as the Rupertsberg Codex. While current German scholarship has tended to preclude Hildegard’s hand, pre-war German scholars, who had access to the original manuscript before it was lost, and most modern Anglophone scholars have argued more or less strongly for  Hildegard’s influence on the design. This paper argues for Hildegard’s direction of the images based on their function as a theological discourse refracting the text. The images are not ancillary to or derivative of the work; they are integral to it. A key area of the manuscript design that reveals these authorial interventions is the color scheme. The use of certain colors, such as green and red, that have particular meanings in Hildegard’s symbolic vocabulary—even when at odds with the colors described in the recorded vision text—reveals the theological place of each image within Hildegard’s perception of salvation history. Furthermore, the extensive use of silver, gold, and blue in the manuscript can be understood both through Hildegard’s likely use of actual jewelry that contained enamel work and those metals, and through the theological meanings with which Hildegard imbues the metallic pigments. Such visual markers invested with theological significance thus argue for Hildegard’s design of the manuscript and aid the viewer- reader in interpreting the complex visual allegories at work in  Hildegard’s  often  enigmatic  visions. Finally, they reveal the dynamic ways in which Hildegard used the images to emphasize her theological insights into the feminine divine and its connection especially to her and her community  as  virgin members of a virgin Church.

scholarly journals Western Sophiology? The "Eternal Feminine” in the Thought of Henri de Lubac

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
Andrzej Persidok
Keyword(s):  
The Feminine ◽  
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin ◽  
Eternal Feminine ◽  
The Church ◽  
Historical References

The study is dedicated to the Mariology and ecclesiology of Henri de Lubac. It analyzes the works in which de Lubac emphasizes the unity of these two fields of theology, referring primarily to the Fathers of the Church and to the thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. This article tries to show that these are not purely historical references, but an expression of de Lubac’s original reflection, which forms a coherent whole. This whole is reconstructed at the end of the article. In consequence, there might be seen a kind of “Western sophiology,” a theological synthesis in which the “feminine element” plays an important role, and the central, rather than peripheral, nature of the truths of faith concerning the Mother of God and the Church becomes visible.

Experiences of Exclusion: a Study Conducted Among Catholic Women in the Johannesburg Diocese1

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-191
Author(s):  
Louise Kretzschmar ◽  
Mary Ryan Ralphs
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
African Women ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
South African Women ◽  
The Church ◽  
Local Research

AbstractMuch has been written to critique the Catholic church's position on the ordination of women based on arguments from scripture and tradition. However, there has been little local research on how South African women experience the consequences of this exclusion from ministry. In this article Ralphs and Kretzschmar set out, from an ethical and feminist theological position, to show the effects of this exclusion both on women and on the church. Through a study of the literature and interviews with 60 Catholic women from the diocese of Johannesburg, they attempt to explain what lies behind the Catholic church's position on women, and to describe it's negative consequences. The authors conclude that whilst many women are aware of the negative effects of exclusion, they are unable to name the structural forces which reinforce this exclusion, and that theological and pedagogical processes are required to shape a different consciousness among women.

scholarly journals The Role of Women in the Mexican Cristero Rebellion: Las Señoras Y Las Religiosas

1984 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Cristero Rebellion ◽  
The Church

Participation of women in the Cristero rebellion, the Catholic uprising against the anti-clerical revolutionary government of Mexico, has largely been ignored by historians. A fresh reading of the documents, and more important, conversations with the principal women in the movement, reveal that the traditional role of women in the church gave way to changed behavior in the 1920s. Not only were Catholic women of a traditionally oriented society capable of assuming leadership in a violent enterprise, but they were equally capable of falling back into their conservative patterns once the crisis had ended. Nevertheless, the vital role women played in the church-state conflict prepared them for the emerging role of women in the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Between Online Autonomy and Local Constraints: Spaces of Roman Catholic Women’s Activity in Poland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Szwed
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Local Constraints ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
The Church

Abstract The analysis presented in this article shows how a hybrid community combining online and offline activity generates a semi-autonomous space of women's activity, neither fully independent of the religious institution, nor entirely controlled by it. Based on results obtained over 15 months of qualitative research conducted in the Captivating (Urzekająca), conservative community of Roman Catholic women in Poland, I show that digital environments are conducive to building a community of women, a creative approach to practices, renegotiating power relations, and building a sense of agency among women, while also recognizing the authority of the Church as an institution. At the same time, I argue that relative autonomy in practising religion online is limited by the pressures experienced by women in the offline space as a result of the nature of the local Church. The article discusses the question of the relations between the online and offline space, as well as the role of the broader context for understanding conservative women's practice of religion.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document