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Nuns' stories, nuns' voices: Resistance at the margins of patriarchal ideology
Nuns' ambiguous position within patriarchy makes them particularly interesting subjects for a feminist study on power, resistance and representation. This work starts out by putting the concept of nun into historical perspective and by analyzing the act of becoming a nun as a particular practice of …
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The Perimenopausal Phenomenon in Catholic Nuns
… the perimenopausal phenomenon in Catholic nuns. A general interview guide was used to obtain the postmenopausal reflections of the perimenopausal experience. The study revealed that except for a few individual variations, the perimenopausal symptoms of Catholic nuns are similar to those …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
<p>Protestant nuns, <em>Stiftsdamen</em>, fulfilled a unique role in early modern Lutheran society. This papers focuses on the implied social roles and expected virtues of Protestant nuns [<em>Stiftsdamen</em>] in the works of male Lutheran pastors who supported Protestant theological positions …
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Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy
… as producing adverse economic effects for nuns. However, scholars have begun to identify the absence of belief in merit in Buddhist organisations operating outside Asia and to consider the implications of this post-merit Buddhism for the funding of monastic institutions. The purpose of this …
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… Protestant propaganda, debates about nuns remain too often framed by a discourse around themes such as passivity or the idea of forced vocations. The mere fact that women religious played a role in such propaganda suggests, however, that they also figured in debates about identity and …
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Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1992
… (an organized effort to educate American nuns) set the stage for unprecedented reforms, brought an excitement and optimism to women religious and laywomen, and led to unintended revolutionary consequences. Nuns and laywomen were optimistic that the church could and would change further, …
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Precarity and pastoral care : nuns and bishops in the fifteenth-century diocese of Lincoln.
… medieval past and in the modern present, English nuns have not received the attention to pastoral care befitting their position as the brides of Christ. In late medieval England, this was due to complications of gendered care. In modern scholarship, this is due to a paucity of sources. This …
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Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
… examines the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Yachen, a mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in post-Mao China. Over 10,000 nuns make up the vast majority of the permanent residents …
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Common core thesis and a qualitative and quantitative analysis of mysticism in Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns
… Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses identified Hood’s Mysticism Scale as a valid tool for studying mysticism across religions and cultures. Stace’s common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood’s scale …
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CREATING SPACES OF THIRD GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN PORTRAIT PRINTS OF MEXICAN COLONIAL NUNS
… vidas interiores were confessions written by nuns in convents under the order of their confessors. These vidas served as the basis for biographies of the sisters, which were written and distributed by confessors. Vidas frequently included printed portraits of the subjects on whom they were …
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The Life of the Nuns at West Malling Abbey: Social and Religious Dynamics from the Middle Medieval Period to the Reformation
… evidence to explore the lives of the nuns of St. Mary’s Abbey and their impact on the growth of the town of West Malling. These resources are few and widely scattered across archives. There are two short books exclusively about the abbey, one written by the nuns themselves and a second …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
This thesis examines the representation of nuns from the Fin-de-Siècle into the 1930s, in the popular medium of postcards, in art during the Modernist period, and throughout the early development of film. The thesis demonstrates how secularisation, rapid technological development, and political …
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THE FIGURE OF THE WAYWARD NUN IN LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: THE AMBIGUOUS PORTRAITS OF THE ARCHPRIEST OF HITA'S DONA GAROZA AND CHAUCER'S MADAME EGLENTYNE (ENGLAND, SPAIN)
… and the Archpriest of Hita regarded their nuns, it is necessary to understand how the fourteenth century would have regarded them, and whether these nuns were exceptional or typical in their faults. Such apparently ambiguous literary portraits of the two nuns are in reality satirical. The …
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Život v pražském klášteře sv. Jiří ve středověku
… focuses on the community of Benedictine nuns at St. George's Church in Prague Castle from its foundation around 970 to the 16th century. It is based on a detailed study of primary sources (especially surviving monastic charters, manuscripts, but also records of church administration and …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
… demanded not just the obedience of their own nuns, but of any dependent communities, male or female. The authority of these women rested on the history of their communities, the strength of their advocates, and their own ability to pursue their rights. In Poitiers, the abbesses of Sainte-Croix …
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Studi komparatif kandangan ustadzah dan biarawati terhadap perkawinan di Kota Pasuruan
… usually conducted by Ustadzah (in Islam) and Nuns (in Catholic) in order to create a happy family. The research problems of this research are how the marriage concept according to Ustadzah and Nuns and how the exemplary efforts which conducted by Ustadzah and Nuns in guiding married couples to …
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… art historical scholarship on Italian Dominican nuns by investigating previously overlooked convents and their artistic activities, while also addressing unresolved questions concerning better-known communities. The study highlights the distinctive systems of patronage within each convent and …
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The female quest for enlightenment: Compassion and patience in transforming gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism, with specific reference to Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
… and the specific role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in the Tibetan tradition. The research highlights the specific …
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