Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850-1950 / Cara Delay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delay, Cara, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Ireland--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic women--Ireland--History.

Catholic women.

Catholic women--Religious life--Ireland.

Catholic women--Ireland--Social conditions.

Ireland--Religion.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--1837-1901.

Ireland--History--20th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This study investigates the place of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history. It analyses the intersections of gender, class and religion by exploring the roles that middle-class, working-class and rural poor women played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities. The book demonstrates that in an age of Church growth and renewal, stretching from the aftermath of the Great Famine through the Free State years, lay women were essential to all aspects of Catholic devotional life, including both home-based religion and public rituals. It also reveals that women, by rejecting, negotiating and reworking Church dictates, complicated Church and clerical authority.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Women and Catholic culture

2. Catholic girlhoods

3. The Irish Catholic mother

4. The holy household

5. Gender and space

6. Women, priests, and power

Conclusion

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526136404

1526136406

OCLC:

1264421843