Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement – By Mary J. Henold

Eden, Jason

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9809.2011.01104.x

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“…Every women's ordination advocacy group from this era, whether Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, or Protestant, drew upon resources particular to their religious traditions. 89 Yet behind the actions of Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, Protestant, and RLDS women's ordination advocates stood a certain social imaginary that enabled their actions in the first place, one we have suggested was formed through the circulation of texts and stranger sensibility.…”

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Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic: RLDS Feminists and Women's Ordination Advocacy in America, 1970–1985

Howlett,

Ross

2023

Religion and Am. Culture

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The 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of religious feminism in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, particularly around the issue of women's ordination. We pose a model for understanding this development—the formation of publics/counterpublics—and explore how it illuminates our case study. Drawing upon oral history interviews and archival sources, we document how RLDS women created independent publications, grassroots consciousness-raising groups, feminist classes and conferences, and Women-Church–inspired worship to reimagine priesthood within their church. We conclude that the lens of a counterpublic offers a capacious view of our topic, one capable of integrating both social movement theory and network theory. Furthermore, we suggest that the RLDS example featured in this essay is simply a manifestation of a larger late twentieth-century American “feminist religious counterpublic” formed across many religious denominations and groups that held a shared feminist social imaginary.

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Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic: RLDS Feminists and Women's Ordination Advocacy in America, 1970–1985

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Ross

2023

Religion and Am. Culture

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“…I do not broach the gender disparity in this thesis, but more information can be found in Lavinia Byrne's (1994) Woman at the altar: The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church or Mary J. Henold's (2012) Catholic and feminist: The surprising history of the American Catholic feminist movement.…”

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The Bible as Technology: How the Catholic Communication Infrastructure Creates a Path Dependency

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Situating the Roman Catholic Church within studies of communication infrastructures, my thesis demonstrates how the Church's communication practices were established and entrenched the Church in a path dependency. I situate the Vatican's canonical interpretation of the Bible as technology and examine failures in the Church's infrastructure, which makes elements of the system visible. I study two historical events related to the papacy that highlight these failures: the fourteenth-century Western Schism and Pope Francis' 2020 gay marriage controversy. I explain how Catholic interpretation of the Bible, as an infrastructural technology, is used to resolve Church conflict, but introduces contradictions. I employ a cultural approach, which places religion as the product of media practices and recognizes Catholic interpretation of the Bible as an integral part of infrastructure situated within its complex cultural interactions. Coining the term doppel-paths, I explore path dependency alongside soft technological determinism, and, through this intervention, I provide a novel theoretical approach to understanding religious infrastructures and their contradictions.There are a number of people without whom this thesis would not be possible. First, I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Hannah Dick, for her care and instruction; my second reader, Dr. Miranda Brady, for her belief and support of this research; my external, Dr. Zeba Crook, for his expertise and generous feedback; and Dr. Rena Bivens for her time in chairing my defense. As well, thank you to the rest of the faculty and staff at Carleton University. I would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Sandra Robinson for her continued encouragement and the many wonderful opportunities she has offered me throughout my degree. Thank you to my family and friends in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montréal, and across Canada, whose love and support has traversed many kilometers. Kit Chokly, who bore the brunt of my thesis turmoil these past few years and never wavered in their steadfast friendship; thank you for always believing I could do this. Bethany Berard, the best roommate a person could ask for and a truly wonderful mentor. Shanice Bernicky, for her sage advice and sincere support. Thank you to

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Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement – By Mary J. Henold

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Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic: RLDS Feminists and Women's Ordination Advocacy in America, 1970–1985

Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic: RLDS Feminists and Women's Ordination Advocacy in America, 1970–1985

The Bible as Technology: How the Catholic Communication Infrastructure Creates a Path Dependency

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