Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church
"This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York
Fordham University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Catholic Practice in North America
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| Further subjects: | B
Gender studies: women
B womanpriest B Ordination of women - Catholic Church B Social & Cultural History B priesthood B Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church B Roman Catholicism B Roman Catholic Womenpriests-USA, Inc B sacraments B HISTORY - Social History B Ordination of women Catholic Church B feminism B ordination B Women priests B women |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: PETERFESO, JILL: WOMANPRIEST. - [Place of publication not identified] : FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020. - 0823288285 |
| Summary: | "This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests’ actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. In order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post–Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (285 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0823288285 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 20.500.12854/26141 |