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Author Peterfeso, Jill, author.

Title Womanpriest : tradition and transgression in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church / Jill Peterfeso.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Catholic practice in North America
Catholic practice in North America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction St. Louis, Missouri December 27, 2009 -- Chapter 1 Called -- Chapter 2 Rome's Mixed Messages -- Chapter 3 Conflict and Creativity -- Chapter 4 Ordination -- Chapter 5 Sacraments -- Chapter 6 Ministries on the Margins -- Chapter 7 Womenpriests' Bodies in Persona Christi -- Conclusion -- Appendix A Interview Subjects and Primary Sources -- Appendix B Interview Questions for Womenpriests -- Appendix C Data and Interview Questions for RCWP Communities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes
Summary This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests' actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. In order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post-Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today.
Subject Roman Catholic Womenpriests-USA, Inc.
Ordination of women -- Catholic Church.
Women priests.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Ordination of women -- Catholic Church
Women priests
Indexed Term Roman Catholicism.
feminism.
ordination.
priesthood.
sacraments.
womanpriest.
women.
Other Form: Print version: PETERFESO, JILL. WOMANPRIEST. [Place of publication not identified] : FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020 0823288285 (OCoLC)1117309809
ISBN 9780823288304 (electronic bk.)
0823288307 (electronic bk.)
0823288285
9780823288281
Standard No. AU@ 000067251782
AU@ 000074040197
AU@ 000074678039

 
    
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