Contested identities

Contested identities
Author: Carmen M. Mangion
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1526135280

English Roman Catholic women’s congregations are an enigma of nineteenth-century social history. Over ten thousand nuns and sisters, establishing and managing significant Catholic educational, health care and social welfare institutions in England and Wales, have virtually disappeared from history. Despite their exclusion from historical texts, these women featured prominently in the public and private sphere. Intertwining the complexities of class with the notion of ethnicity, Contested identities examines the relationship between English and Irish-born sisters. This study is relevant not only to understanding women religious and Catholicism in nineteenth-century England and Wales, but also to our understanding of the role of women in the public and private sphere, dealing with issues still resonant today. Contributing to the larger story of the agency of nineteenth-century women and the broader transformation of English society, this book will appeal to scholars and students of social, cultural, gender and religious history.

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles
Author: James Donaldson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2020-12-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034139072

The Apostolic Constitutions are made up of eight treatises covering the early church's discipline, worship, and doctrine. It was intended to act as a manual to guide the clergy and to serve as a catechism for the laity. It claims to be written by the Twelve Apostles. The structure of the work is: Books 1-6: Admonitions about Christian life, prayer, orphans and martyrdom. Rules about the qualifications of bishops, deacons and deaconesses and widows. Rules about church-building, fasting, the education of children and heresies. Book 7: A rewrite of the Didache along with prayers. Book 8: A treatise on charismata and a rewrite of the Apostolic Tradition along with the "Canons of the Apostles." This work is taken from: Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts (1826-1901), and A. Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896). (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Translated by James Donaldson (1831-1915). The original footnotes and Bible references are preserved. Also, illustrations have been added of the Gospels events and the Biblical characters referred to in the text.

The Life of Cornelia Connelly, 1809-1879

The Life of Cornelia Connelly, 1809-1879
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1924
Genre:
ISBN:

Cornelia Connelly, née Cornelia Augusta Peacock, (born Jan. 15, 1809, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.--died April 18, 1879, St. Leonards, Sussex, Eng.), Roman Catholic abbess who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and became the subject of an acrimonious ecclesiastical controversy.

Spirituality in Ministerial Formation

Spirituality in Ministerial Formation
Author: Andrew Mayes
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0708322700

Presents a study in the area of theological education. This title traces the origin and evolution of the formation model of training and identifies what difference this paradigm makes to the practice. It offers ideas for a renewed understanding and praxis of the role of prayer in learning. It is intended for the theological students and teachers.

The Miners of Windber

The Miners of Windber
Author: Mildred A. Beik
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780271015675

"Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.