Les moniales et l’emprise du genre. Enquête dans des monastères catholiques de femmes

Jonveaux, Isabelle

doi:10.3917/socio.062.0121

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“…Six years later, in France, Guy Michelat and Julien Potel found out that sisters with better social origins and higher levels of education tended to be elected more often to positions of authority (Michelat and Potel, 1995). These studies proved that convents are not impermeable to the relations of power of the ‘outside world’ (see also Jonveaux, 2015). They rather tend to reproduce, through homologies, the relations of power of the social world that surrounds them.…”

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confidence: 87%

Decolonizing the convent: Transnationality, North–South domination and sisterhood among the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

Huard

2020

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

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Transnational congregations are ambiguous and complex social spaces as they are both divided (notably around the North–South axis) and united (around a same charism, a same founding figure). This article seeks to understand how sisters from Quebec and Central America belonging to the same transnational congregation construct their interpersonal relations, given that they live in a social field marked by both North–South domination and religious sisterhood. Based on two months of fieldwork within the congregation at the Order’s mother house in Quebec and at some of its mission houses in Honduras, it explores this issue through a brief presentation of the history of the congregation and an analysis of the discourses of the sisters interviewed. It concludes that the intra-congregational relationships are rooted in the continuous negotiation between the verticality of North–South domination and the horizontality of sisterhood. In the present context of vocational decline, the congregation faces two options: to decolonize or to remain trapped in contradictions that could stop it from adapting to its new reality.

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Section: Final Remarksmentioning

confidence: 87%

Decolonizing the convent: Transnationality, North–South domination and sisterhood among the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

Huard

2020

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

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“…An in depth-analysis of the collective narratives and theological arguments that support this monastic pattern of cohabitation (despite the Church rules) would be an important research path in the future for justifying the contemporary reasons for accepting this reality and analyzing the (possible) transformations of the monastic vision and monastic practice as regards the female gender (Jonveaux 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Beyond Gender: Reflections on a Contemporary Case of Double Monastery in Orthodox Monasticism—St. John the Baptist Monastery of Essex in England

Giorda

Cozma²

2019

Religions

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This paper focuses on the contemporary controversy in the Orthodox Church regarding the non-existence of the monasteries, where monks and nuns cohabit (so-called “double-monasteries”), which were prohibited by the Byzantine legislation and the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea 787). The article attempts to demonstrate that, in spite of the centuries-old prohibition, the Orthodox Monastery of St. John the Baptist is an exceptional contemporary case of such cohabitation: monks and nuns live under the roof of the same monastery, sharing common places and certain activities. Furthermore, the paper envisions a possible accommodation in the monastic vision and practice regarding gender cohabitation in Orthodox monasticism. The research employs the historical-critical method, which is based on literary, archeological, and documentary sources, as well as interviews.

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“…The strategy selected for the research has been that of an ‘intrinsic’ case study (Stake, 1995: 3) due to its singularity and exceptionality in two interrelated aspects. First, the intergenerational character of the community that contrasts the ageing trend observed in other monasteries in Catalonia, Spain and other parts of the global North (Ebaugh, 1993; Jonveaux, 2015a). Second, the admission of a new generation of nuns who, breaking with traditional domestic female roles (Woodhead, 2008), have become ‘carriers’ (Weber, 1965 [1922]) of modifications made to the traditional principles and practices of monastic life.…”

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Boundaries in the Making: Transformations in Erving Goffman’s Total Institution through the Case of a Female Benedictine Monastery

Clot-Garrell

2021

Sociology

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Total institutions have undergone profound changes since Erving Goffman published his seminal work Asylums in 1961. This article explores the persistence and transformation of total institutions under late-modern conditions. Based upon empirical research conducted in a female Benedictine monastery, I analyse changes in the physically bounded structure of a total institution. Specifically, I address the trend towards greater permeability and flexibility of enclosed total spaces. Inspired by Georg Simmel’s spatial insights, I examine how boundaries are historically reshaped through changing relations of distance and proximity to wider society, and how these shifts alter the material expression and configuration of power that originally characterised the monastery’s totality. This article claims the ongoing relevance of Goffman’s conceptualisation to accommodate such modifications and illustrates how, in certain cases, adaptations of total institutions to contemporary conditions can be understood as involving the reconfiguration, rather than the dismantling, of totality.

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Les moniales et l’emprise du genre. Enquête dans des monastères catholiques de femmes

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Decolonizing the convent: Transnationality, North–South domination and sisterhood among the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

Decolonizing the convent: Transnationality, North–South domination and sisterhood among the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

Beyond Gender: Reflections on a Contemporary Case of Double Monastery in Orthodox Monasticism—St. John the Baptist Monastery of Essex in England

Boundaries in the Making: Transformations in Erving Goffman’s Total Institution through the Case of a Female Benedictine Monastery

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