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Author Weaver, Mary Jo

Title New Catholic women : a contemporary challenge to traditional religious authority / Mary Jo Weaver
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 272 pages)
Contents New Catholic Women Ten Years Later -- 1. Who Can Find a Valiant Woman?: American Catholic Women in Historical Perspective -- 2. From Immigrants to Emigrants: Women in the Parish -- 3. Inside Outsiders: Sisters and the Women's Movement -- 4. Ordination, Collective Power, and Sisterhood: Foundations for the Future -- 5. Enlarging the Discipline: Roman Catholic Feminist Theologians -- 6. Affirming the Connections: Roman Catholic Feminist Spirituality
Summary "Weaver addresses the historical context, theological response, and contemporary experience of nuns, laywomen, theologians, and women in the pew who struggle in an ecclesiastical community that energetically opposes feminism. She examines the new feminist consciousness of some Catholic women; women's roles in the parish; the relationship of women's religious orders to the women's movement; women's ordination; Roman Catholic feminist theologians; and feminist spirituality. Weaver has added a new introduction addressing the current realities of a conservative Papacy and Church."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index
Notes English
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Subject Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Women in the Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Theology, Doctrinal
Women in the Catholic Church
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585001383
9780585001388