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Catholic Practice in North America Ser.: Womanpriest : Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church by Jill Peterfeso (2020, Hardcover)

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Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church (Catholic Practice in North America) by Peterfeso, Jill [Hardcover]

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PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-100823288285

ISBN-139780823288281

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Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameWomanpriest : Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church

LanguageEnglish

SubjectChristianity / Catholic, Social History, Christianity / Denominations, Women's Studies

Publication Year2020

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, History

AuthorJill Peterfeso

SeriesCatholic Practice in North America Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2020-904510

ReviewsWe have desperately needed a book on the Roman Catholic Womenpriests, a growing movement with one foot in the Roman church and one foot dragging it toward reform. Womanpriest is that book. Jill Peterfeso draws on rich interviews with RCWP women, as well as ethnographic participation and primary documents, to show how different womenpriests understand the balance between tradition and reform; how they hold positions for women's ordination and against clericalism at the same time; and how numbers of Catholic communities are already formed and transforming in relationship with priests who are women. ---Julie Byrne, Hartman Chair of Catholic Studies, Hofstra University, and author of The Other Catholics: Remaking America's Largest Religion, Author Jill Peterfeso has done an excellent job getting behind the movements that have fostered women for ordinations, the women priests themselves and the communities they lead outside the normal parish structure. ---Rev. Alexander Santora, The Jersey Journal, ...a valuable contribution to a complicated set of issues, a welcome narrative about one segment of the movement that is in the process of transforming one of patriarchy's last bulwarks., We have desperately needed a book on the Roman Catholic Womenpriests, a growing movement with one foot in the Roman church and one foot dragging it toward reform. Womanpriest is that book. Jill Peterfeso draws on rich interviews with RCWP women, as well as ethnographic participation and primary documents, to show how different womenpriests understand the balance between tradition and reform; how they hold positions for women's ordination and against clericalism at the same time; and how numbers of Catholic communities are already formed and transforming in relationship with priests who are women.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

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Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Called 2. Rome's Mixed Messages 3. Conflict and Creativity 4. Ordination 5. Sacraments 6. Ministries on the Margins 7. Bodies in persona Christi Conclusion Appendixes Appendix A. Interview Subjects and Primary Sources Appendix B. Interview Questions for Womenpriests Appendix C. Data and Interview Questions for RCWP Communities Acknowledgments Notes Index

SynopsisThis 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., The Roman Catholic Church strictly forbids women's ordination, arguing that women priests defy God's will for the Church. Enter Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP), an international movement that has ordained nearly 250 women worldwide, mostly in the United States and Canada. The Vatican insists that women have never and can never be priests; RCWP responds by ordaining womenpriests who lead worship communities, perform sacramental ministries, and embody Christ as women. RCWP transgresses official Roman Catholic teaching while seeking to uphold and redeem Roman Catholic traditions-all while provocatively claiming to be Roman Catholic. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, 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 recreate the central tensions in Catholicism today.

LC Classification NumberBX1912.2