Modern Carmelite nuns and contemplative identities

Modern Carmelite nuns and contemplative identities

Shaping spirituality in the Netherlands

$130.00

Publication Date: 21st May 2024

This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society. Read More
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This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society. Read More
Description
Discalced Carmelite convents are among the most influential wellsprings of female spirituality in the Catholic tradition, as the names of Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux and Edith Stein attest. Behind these ‘great Carmelites’ stood communities of women who developed discourses on their relationship with God and their identity as a spiritual elite in the church and society. This book looks at these discourses as formulated by Carmelites in the Netherlands, from their arrival there in 1872 up to the recent past, providing an in-depth case study of the spiritualities of modern women contemplatives. The female religious life was a transnational phenomenon, and the book draws on sources and scholarship in English, Dutch, French and German to provide insights on gendered spirituality, memory and the post-conciliar renewal of the religious life.
Details
  • Price: $130.00
  • Pages: 304
  • Carton Quantity: 20
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date: 21st May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781526177209
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    RELIGION / Christianity / History
    RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
    HISTORY / Europe / Western
    HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
    HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
    RELIGION / Spirituality
Author Bio
Brian Heffernan is a historian of religion who has published on modern Catholicism in Ireland and the Netherlands
Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Convents, sisters and power
2 Mighty victims: suffering and spiritual warfare, 1872–1920
3 Little ways, old and new: pain and prayer, 1920–1970
4 A new type of Carmelite: renewal, 1950–1990
5 Contemplatives in an expressive culture: prayer and the turn to self, 1970–2020
Conclusion
Index

Discalced Carmelite convents are among the most influential wellsprings of female spirituality in the Catholic tradition, as the names of Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux and Edith Stein attest. Behind these ‘great Carmelites’ stood communities of women who developed discourses on their relationship with God and their identity as a spiritual elite in the church and society. This book looks at these discourses as formulated by Carmelites in the Netherlands, from their arrival there in 1872 up to the recent past, providing an in-depth case study of the spiritualities of modern women contemplatives. The female religious life was a transnational phenomenon, and the book draws on sources and scholarship in English, Dutch, French and German to provide insights on gendered spirituality, memory and the post-conciliar renewal of the religious life.
  • Price: $130.00
  • Pages: 304
  • Carton Quantity: 20
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date: 21st May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781526177209
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    RELIGION / Christianity / History
    RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
    HISTORY / Europe / Western
    HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
    HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
    RELIGION / Spirituality
Brian Heffernan is a historian of religion who has published on modern Catholicism in Ireland and the Netherlands

Introduction
1 Convents, sisters and power
2 Mighty victims: suffering and spiritual warfare, 1872–1920
3 Little ways, old and new: pain and prayer, 1920–1970
4 A new type of Carmelite: renewal, 1950–1990
5 Contemplatives in an expressive culture: prayer and the turn to self, 1970–2020
Conclusion
Index