women's experiences in the English-speaking world, 17th - 21st centuries Lux-Sterritt, Laurence. Sorin, Claire. text bibliography Electronic books. enk Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars c2012 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (vi, 240 p.) ill. Suspicious saints: the spiritual paradox of the Daughters of Eve / Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin -- Wives, mothers, and Christians: the part played by religion as seen through some female-authored 17th-century writings / Michèle Lardy -- Clerical guidance and lived spirituality in early modern English convents / Laurence Lux-Sterritt -- Women's restricted access to Masonic spirituality in 18th-century Europe: a case of betrayal of Enlightenment ideals? / Hélène Palma -- The cultivation of conversion in the lives of 19th-century New York women / Rachel Cope -- Rationalizing women's redemptive power in Victorian America: an insight into two discourses on womanhood and domesticity / Claire Sorin -- Feminine apparations and other ghostly teleplasm: contesting and constructing womanliness in the séances of Dr. T. G. Hamilton 1918-1935 / Beth A. Robertson -- Can the female body act as mediator of the sacred? The issue of female clerics in 20th-century Britain / Églantine Jamet-Moreau -- Nun's negotiation of gender and sex in resisting the Catholic Church's positioning of them as docile spiritual mothers: a contemporary Australian/New Zealand study / Megan P. Brock -- Movement from the margins: contemporary Mormon women's visions of the mother God / Margaret M. Toscano -- "There is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female": what about the souls of black womenfolk? / Cécile Coquet-Mokoko. edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin. Includes bibliographical references. Women and religion History Christian women History Women in Christianity History RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict BV639.W7 S75 2012 200.82 1443834890 (electronic bk.) 9781443834896 (electronic bk.) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=539626 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=539626 YDXCP 130129 20200709055737.0 ocn825978059