Women Religious

Reading the Corinthian Veils through Hijabs and Habits

by Janelle Peters

In: Intercultural Readings of 1-2 Corinthians: Race, Ritual, Food, and Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013. Presented at SBL 2009.

In this paper, I use anthropological insight gained from veiling practices in Catholic and Muslim subcultures in the... more In this paper, I use anthropological insight gained from veiling practices in Catholic and Muslim subcultures in the United States to provide a new interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.

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‘The “Mixed Life”: Balancing the Active with the Contemplative’

by Carmen M. Mangion

In Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality:  Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 edited by Carmen M. Mangion and Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 165-79.

‘“Give them practical lessons”: Catholic women religious and the transmission of nursing knowledge in late nineteenth-century England’

by Carmen M. Mangion

in The Transmission of Health Practices (c. 1500 to 2000) edited by Martin Dinges and Robert Jütte (Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, 2011), pp. 89-104.

'Good teacher' or 'good religious'? the professional identity of catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales

by Carmen M. Mangion

in Women's History Review, 2005

Laying 'Good Strong Foundations': the power of the symbolic in the formation of a religious sister

by Carmen M. Mangion

published in Women's History Review, 2007.

Women, religious ministry and female institution building

by Carmen M. Mangion

published in Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940 edited by Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries (Routledge, 2010), pp. 72-93.

Catholic Nuns and English Identities. English protestant travellers on the English convents in the Low Countries, 1660-1730

by Liesbeth Corens

Recusant History 30 (2011), 441-459.

This article challenges the predominant identification of English national identity and Anti-Catholicism. By means of... more This article challenges the predominant identification of English national identity and Anti-Catholicism. By means of English travellers' accounts of the English nunneries they visited in the Low Countries, it argues that these offer more complex identity formation. Travellers did not bluntly repeat the Anti-Catholic stereotypes historians have put so much stress on, but found a positive way of identifying themselves with their Catholic compatriots in the convents.

‘Martyrs of England! Standing on High!’: Roman Catholic Women’s Hymn-writing for the Re-invigoration of the Faith in England, 1850–1903

by Nancy Jiwon Cho

in _Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900_, ed. Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen Mangion, Series: Gender and History (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)