The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, R…
The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, R…
The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, R…
This volume probes the meaning and ethical implications of the powerful symbol of vocation from the vantage of contemporary Catholic women, with particular attention to the experiences of women religious.
"This volume probes the meaning and ethical implications of the powerful symbol of vocation in a transformed social context. Patrick analyzes the complex responses of Catholic women to injustice and describes a post-Vatican II shift in understandings of virtue, with particular a…
"The story of a woman named Sofía del Valle, who resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, which tells the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the central importance women played in Catholic survival and change over the…
"The story of a woman named Sofía del Valle, who resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, which tells the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the central importance women played in Catholic survival and change over the…