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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.

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