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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"religious women"”.
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Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… analyzes the contributions of three prominent women religious leaders to 1920s and 30s public debates over how to best address extreme human needs. To enter the debates, these women had not only to offer compelling visions of religiously inspired social service, but to distance themselves from …
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Negotiating Identities: The Case of Evangelical Christian Women in London
… These debates converge most polemically around women’s religiosity, as evidenced by proposed bans on the hijab, and the criminalisation of female circumcision. Research on religious women creates a binary juxtaposition between religion as an oppressive force, on the one hand, and religion as a …
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
This thesis explores how three religious women rhetors – St. Catherine of Siena, Sarah Grimke, and Mary Daly – rhetorically navigated and ultimately subverted the stringent ethical codes and gendered expectations imposed on “virtuous women” by crafting an ethos of interruption. Aristotelian ethos, …
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Feminism and hostile sexism among the religiously affiliated.
This research examines the relationship between religious identification and feminist identification. Additionally, it investigates the extent of hostile sexist attitudes among those who identify as religious feminists. Utilizing 2016 American National Election Survey data, I find that religious …
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Influenced: Performing Gender and Femininity in Mormon and Evangelical Online Spaces
… allow users to become producers of identity and religious narrative. In this dissertation I examine the online communities which are a dynamic and developing aspect of religious life in America. I will argue that religious women have created increasingly diverse virtual spaces for themselves, and …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… is given to the writing and concerns of English women in the early modern period, one specific group has been overlooked, English Catholic women who became religious sisters in convents on the Continent. These women produced writings detailing their lives, community, and sense of self which are …
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Convents Clausura and Cloisters Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome and Latium
… witnessed a substantial rise in the study of religious women as patrons of art, no comprehensive, in depth study has ever been devoted to Rome and Latium. Yet evidence of female patronage in the city and region during the late medieval period is conspicuous, their neglect possibly a …
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Faith of Our Mothers: Religiosity in Adult Daughter-Mother Relationships
… phenomenological study, a purposive sample of 12 religious women considered their experiences of religiosity with their mothers and larger family systems. Adult daughters reflected on the significance and meaning of religion in their lives and relationships, particularly the interaction of mothers …
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Moved by the Spirit: Evangelical Presbyterian Woman in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… and accounts featuring Scottish Presbyterian women in Scotland and the greater Atlantic world, and their experiences within these revivals. This study seeks to uncover the relationship of those women to evangelicalism and revivalism as it exists as a cultural event embedded with symbols. In …
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Cultural and religious effect of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, of St. Joseph, Missouri, on the region during its one hundred years of existence
… region. From the first days when four intrepid Religious of the Sacred Heart disembarked from the river steamer at the port of this struggling little river town of a few thousand inhabitants, until today, when St. Joseph is a thriving western city of 84,000 inhabitants, there has been a …
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The Roots of Feminist Invocations in Post-Revolutionary Iran
… contrary to what was intended. The expansion of women's education in post-revolutionary Iran identified as an unintended consequence of the revolution has been empowering women against the IRI's misogynistic ideology. A feminist movement based on the evolution of female consciousness and an …
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Intersectionality in Organisations: Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Women’s Work in a Postcolonial African Space.
This study focuses on academic women’s perception of organisational structures involving recruitment, selection and promotion in the Nigerian higher education system, exploring how gender, ethnicity and religious identities, important factors in the Nigeria socio-economic context, can create …
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
… but I demonstrate that representations of women in the Douce 308 lyrics instead bend formal conventions and subvert genres. Using case studies from the chansonnier’s pastourelles, ballettes, motets, rondeaux, jeux-partis, and grands chants, I examine the representations of women as …
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Women's masturbation: an exploration of the influence of shame, guilt, and religiosity
… & Moore, 1994). Researchers have found that more religious women have less affirmative responses to masturbation and are more likely to experience remorse about their own masturbation (Davidson, Moore, & Ullstrup, 2004). The present study’s purpose was to examine the responses of shame and guilt …
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Processing Piety and the Materiality of Spiritual Mission at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539
… goal, while being focused on contemplative women who were strictly enclosed. In this dissertation, I assert that this apparent contradiction was resolved through a high degree of collaboration between the abbey’s religious women and men. I argue that Brigittine monasticism, and that of Syon …
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Letters home : the experiences and perceptions of middle class British women at the Cape 1820-1850
… with the experiences and perceptions of British women living in the Cape Colony, South Africa, during the first half of the nineteenth century. My chief source materials are the letters and diaries written by different women in the period 1820-1850. The women in my thesis were members of the …
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Transitional holiness in the twelfth century: the social and spiritual identity of Domina Christina of Markyate
… to structure the study – social networks in religious life, sanctity and spirituality – it reflects on how the stakeholders in Christina’s texts negotiated their positions in relation to these discourses and throws light on a context of rapid discourse shift. The first section, ‘The Lady …