Unconventional Sisterhood Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines

• मुख्य लेखक: Claussen, Heather (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2001
• विषय: Gender studies, gender groups; Anthropology; Asian Studies; Gender Studies; Religion
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

सारांश

Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. Unlike the popular stereotypes of staid sisters cloaked in rigid religious dogmatism, they are doing so by telling jokes, engaging in eclectic religious rituals, maintaining connections with a local nationalist cult, and committing themselves to a radical and feminist politics. This work represents an important addition to scholarship on Philippine feminism. It is one of few ethnographies that focuses on female monasticism-of particular cultural importance in the Christian Philippines, where nuns enjoy relatively high social status and freedom from many of the traditional constraints delineating Filipina lives. It is noteworthy as well for its focus on metropolitan Manila-a socially complex, dynamic, diverse, and understudied environment.

आईएसबीएन

mpub.17260
9780472904266
9780472112210

अभिगमन

Open Access