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Windows on life--women after the Reformation.
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As the title of this essay indicates, the Reformation meant a significant turning point for women's lives. In those territories where the Reformation won acceptance, monastic life and the celibacy of priests were abolished, marriage of the clergy was introduced, and the propagation of marriage was generally increased. All these were drastic and publicly visible changes--but what stood behind these changes? We cannot simply look at the events in isolation from their context and without asking the question of why they happened and in what spirit. One instance of a controversial ...
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Spirituality and women's monastic life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Portugal.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...Moreyra preached a sermon in the convent of Santa Martha in Lisbon...Christian spirituality and women's monastic life that are discussed in this...and the saints. Life in a convent also provided the opportunity...of cloistered women in the convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceicao...foundation ...
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Grounded.(Faith matters)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...what God is asking of them in their monastic life vis-a-vis the contemporary world. And...letter. For I really do believe that the monastic life is an immense blessing to the church...preparing for the general chapter, the monastic life is essentially a lay Christian life...
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(book review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...monastery plant seeds for transformation Monastic life is making a book-publishing comeback...time that prizes virtually everything monastic life teaches us to abhor: individualism...offer. There is not much new about monastic life -- and that's the point. It is timeless...
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Western Monasticism: A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church.(Review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...not consider the development of the monastic life in the Christian East, a topic deserving...learn of the attempt to keep alive the monastic life in tandem with the missionary ideal...the early modern period between the monastic life devoted to scholarship (for example...
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'Citizenship in the heavens': hermits flourished in the desert in the early centuries of Christianity.(Religious Life)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; Monastic life arose simultaneously in many areas of...expressions. In some areas, like Cappadocia, monastic life began as a communal endeavor. Monastic...were sometimes allowed to stay in their monastic life if they could demonstrate that they...
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Uprising in Cancer Alley.(Convent-St. James, Louisiana region beset with petrochemical pollution)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Progressive
; Convent, Louisiana Chimney stacks punctuate the 100-mile stretch...environment. Like the rest of Cancer Alley, the town of Convent has its share of industry. According to the EPA's latest...twenty-three million pounds of toxins were released over Convent in 1994. The majority of these releases occurred in ...
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Men helping women: a monastic case study.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion
; ...institutions, not monastic ones. Work on monastic life has usually been done without reference...institutions, thus illuminating monastic life as one other institutional arena. On the other hand, monastic life differs from secular institutions...
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Monks say work American style hazardous to the monastic life.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; The monastic life of prayer, contemplative reading...style, is destroying Benedictine monastic life. That problem and how to cope with...nothing particularly monastic about the monastic life. You have the option of being shaped...
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MONASTIC EXPERIENCES.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...with staff. An immersion in Benedictine monastic life for those discerning a call to monastic life. Participants will experience the community...years of age) who want to experience monastic life and are afraid to believe they have...
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From the 4th to the 21st century: a young Benedictine reflects on the history and present reality of women's religious life.(Religious Life)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...often had to have what I called the 'monastic life' conversation. What will you do? asked...appeased when they thought of joining a convent as a free choice that I had the right...prayer, the contemplative dimension of monastic life. Benedictines do work--it says in...in the community that ...
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