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_b.P488 2020
082 0 _a262.142082
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100 1 _aPeterfeso, Jill,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWomanpriest
_bTradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church /
_cJill Peterfeso.
264 1 _bProject Muse,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged.)
490 0 _aCatholic practice in North America
500 _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aWhile 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
610 2 0 _aRoman Catholic Womenpriests-USA, Inc.
650 0 _aWomen priests.
650 0 _aOrdination of women
_xCatholic Church.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780823288281
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aCatholic practice in North America.
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/75860/
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