Project (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1988. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-120).

Thesis (Ph. D. in Religion)--Vanderbilt University, May 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

D.Litt. et Phil. / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Orientador: Leonardo Lemos de Souza / Banca: Wiliam Siqueira Peres / Banca: Luis Felipe Rios do Nascimento / Resumo: A pesquisa aqui apresentada consiste no desdobramento da investigação de iniciação científica realizada durante o ano de 2016, cujo o propósito foi mapear os papéis de poder desempenhados por mulheres afro-religiosas de uma determinada família espiritual. Referente ao percurso atual, nosso objetivo prioritário foi cartografar atravessamentos de gêneros e sexualidades que compõem os processos de subjetivação de mulheres consagradas a Iemanjá. Tivemos, ainda, a pretensão de averiguar questões pertinentes às práticas corporais vivenciadas nas festas e demais liturgias do grupo. Ao total, foram entrevistadas quatro mulheres candomblecistas consagradas a divindade acima citada. As entrevistas foram organizadas por um roteiro composto por cinco grandes eixos temáticos. Como ferramenta ética e metodológica, utilizamos a cartografia aplicada à psicologia social. As entrevistas foram gravadas e, posteriormente, transcritas. Assim sendo, foi possível realizar o manejo cartográfico com o material coletado, de maneira a propor diálogos entre a teoria e as experiências relatadas pelas mulheres. Nossa bibliografia básica contemplou, principalmente, estudos que versam sobre o culto às/aos orixás no Brasil e questões de gêneros e sexualidades. Ademais, nos propomos a experimentar conceitos trabalhados por Michael Foucault, na fase de sua obra conhecida como Genealogia da Ética. Sobre as discussões resultantes dessa trajetória, apontamos para o fato de que deusa fornece modelos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The following research consists of the unfolding of the undergraduate research, carried out in 2016, that had as purpose the mapping of the power roles played by Afro-religious women from a particular spiritual family. Regarding the current route, our priority goal was to map crossings of gender and sexuality that make up the subjectivation processes of women consecrated to Iemanjá. We also had the intention of investigating pertinent issues related to the body practices experienced in the parties and other liturgies of the group. In total, it was interviewed four consecrated candomblecist women to the aforementioned divinity. The interviews were organized by a script composed of five major thematic axis. As an ethical and methodological tool, we use cartography applied to social psychology. The interviews were recorded and later transcribed. Thus, it was possible to perform the cartographic management with the collected material, to propose dialogues between the theory and the experiences reported by the women. Our basilar bibliography included mainly studies on the worship of orishas in Brazil and issues of gender and sexuality. Besides, we propose to experiment concepts worked by Michael Foucault, in the phase of his work known as Genealogy of Ethics. About the discussions resulted from this trajectory, we point to the fact that Goddess provides models of identification, especially regarding the performances of femininity. The research participants take divinity... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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Protestant nuns, Stiftsdamen, fulfilled a unique role in early modern Lutheran society. This papers focuses on the implied social roles and expected virtues of Protestant nuns [Stiftsdamen] in the works of male Lutheran pastors who supported Protestant theological positions that promoted marriage as the proper place for women, and yet who also praised unmarried female monastics in funeral sermons [Leichenpredigten]. Lutheran pastors wrote funeral sermons for both Stiftsdamen and married women, funeral sermons display similarities or differences between what virtues, characteristics, and displays of piety for women. A comparison will also be made between funeral sermons for Stiftsdamen and those written for Catholic nuns by Catholic clergy. Convent necrologies, written by Catholic abbesses will also be used to compare what virtues were expected of female religious. Also included is an examination of nuns’ writings about theology, their doctrinal reasons for remaining Catholic, leaving the cloister, and adapting their convent life to fit Lutheran teachings. Damenstiften preserved access for women to positions of authority and self empowerment. These women were, however, different from earlier female religious communities and from Catholic nuns living in other Lutheran areas. Protestant Stiftsdamen had more contact with outside society than cloistered Catholic nuns due to the desire of Lutherans to incorporate these women into their communities. An analysis of the perception of Stiftsdamen by Lutheran pastors and the nuns' consciousness of their own position, duties, and piety is the cornerstone of this new research on gender and religion in early modern Germany. The perpetuation of Protestant convents into the seventeenth century is only briefly documented by historians who focus instead on the religious experience of women in Germany during and directly following the Reformation. Catholic examples of female piety will contribute to the understanding of female religious and their role in society at large. In conclusion, this research displays how Stiftsdamen were praised for the same virtues as early modern married Protestant women and Catholic nuns in funeral sermons, but were not specifically praised as female religious by male Lutheran pastors.