Women in Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment (eBook, PDF)

1650-1800
Redaktion: Córdova Quero, Hugo; Mor, Cristian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a multidisciplinary reassessment of women's intellectual, spiritual, and artistic contributions during the Enlightenment, challenging their place in dominant historical, theological, and philosophical narratives.

Women in Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment brings together eight thematically interconnected chapters that examine how women across diverse geographies navigated patriarchal institutions to assert agency in theology, philosophy, sainthood, education, science, the arts, and religious practice. Drawing from a wide range of case studies, this volume traces counter- narratives that questioned Enlightenment rationalism, ecclesiastical authority, and canonical androcentrism. Featured figures include Puellae Doctae, Rachel Speght, Jeanne Guyon, Mary Astell, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in Europe; "Mamá Antula," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Francisca Josefa del Castillo, and María de Jesús in the Americas; and Luo Qilan, Kiyohara Yukinobu, and Ike Gyokuran in Asia. This volume reframes the Enlightenment as a contested global terrain of gendered power.

This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students in gender studies, theology, intellectual history, and the arts, as well as to general readers interested in the Enlightenment and feminist thought. It offers a valuable resource for rethinking modernity through the often- overlooked contributions of women to Christian intellectual and cultural traditions worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040478219
• Artikelnr.: 75625889

Autorenporträt

Hugo Córdova Quero is the Director of Institute Sophia in Saint Louis, Missouri, Associate Professor of Critical Theories and Queer Theologies, and the Director of Digital Learning at Starr King School for the Ministry (SKSM) in Oakland, California, USA. Cristian Mor is a senior researcher, consultant, strategy director, and professor at Institute Sophia in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contributions Towards Recognizing the Visibility of Women and
Their Role in Crafting the Enlightenment 1. Theological Approaches to
Women: Enlightened Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics 2. The Role of Mary:
Marian Theology and Devotion in the Age of Enlightenment 3. Illuminated
Lives, Flowery Breasts, and Laborious Hands: Christian Female Saints in the
Times of the Enlightenment 4. Breaking Through: Women, Science, Technology,
and Access to Knowledge in the Enlightenment 5. Sapere Aude: Women and
Education During the Enlightenment 6. Women and Philosophy in the
Enlightenment 7. Popular Beliefs, Resistance, and Resilience: Madame
Guyon's Mothering the People according to The Life, by Herself and her
Theology of Prayer 8. Knowing It Can Be Done: Women in the Art of the
Enlightenment (1650-1800). Index