Charisma, Gender and ‘Glocality’: Catholic Charismatic Women in the 1970s

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_11986
dc.title	Charisma, Gender and ‘Glocality’: Catholic Charismatic Women in the 1970s
dc.contributor.author	Maiden John
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/journal-of-modern-and-contemporary-christianity/2023/1/charisma-gender-and-glocality-catholic-charismatic/
dc.description.abstract	This article addresses the role of women in Catholic charismatic renewal, with reference to the movement in both the United States and England. It examines the renewal in relation to a wider mid-century context in which the role of Catholic women was being re-evaluated. It looks closely at the role of women in Catholic prayer groups, showing how while a ‘rediscovery’ of the Spirit contributed, broadly, to a democratising tendency where the laity were concerned, the place of women was contested. It shows how the dominant approach to gender to emerge in the United States – a patriarchal model linked to high profile charismatic ‘covenant communities’ in the upper Midwest cities of South Bend and Ann Arbor – did not have the same influence in England, where a more egalitarian approach tended to develop. This study of gender in the Catholic charismatic renewal is therefore also a case study of the ‘glocality’ of the Catholic charismatic movement.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoMaCC
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Issue 1 \| April 2023
dc.issued	2023-05-16
dc.dateAccepted	2023-04-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-02-03
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-6046
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/JoMaCC/2785-6046/2023/01/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Catholicism
dc.subject	Charismatic Renewal
dc.subject	Covenant Communities
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	Glocality
dc.subject	Notre Dame

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This article addresses the role of women in Catholic charismatic renewal, with reference to the movement in both the United States and England. It examines the renewal in relation to a wider mid-century context in which the role of Catholic women was being re-evaluated. It looks closely at the role of women in Catholic prayer groups, showing how while a ‘rediscovery’ of the Spirit contributed, broadly, to a democratising tendency where the laity were concerned, the place of women was contested. It shows how the dominant approach to gender to emerge in the United States – a patriarchal model linked to high profile charismatic ‘covenant communities’ in the upper Midwest cities of South Bend and Ann Arbor – did not have the same influence in England, where a more egalitarian approach tended to develop. This study of gender in the Catholic charismatic renewal is therefore also a case study of the ‘glocality’ of the Catholic charismatic movement.

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May 16, 2023

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April 16, 2023

Submitted

Feb. 3, 2023

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Keywords: Charismatic Renewal • Catholicism • Covenant Communities • Notre Dame • Gender • Glocality

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