Vowed to Community or Ordained to Mission?
Aspects of separation and integration in the Lutheran Deaconess Institute Neuendettelsau, Bavaria
By (author) Judith Lena Böttcher
Hardback (Published)
(October 2018)
ISBN: 9783525552636
6.69 x 9.76 inches
Price: $82.00
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Deaconesses from a gender perspective
Lena Bottcher offers an overdue exploration of the early years of the deaconess community in Neuendettelsau from a gender perspective. Drawing on rich archival material, she focuses on the process of a distinctive collective identity. Central to this study is the assumption, drawn from the social sciences, that collective identity is a social construction which requires the participation of the whole group through identification and which is consolidated by developing specific rituals, symbols, codes and normative texts, which facilitate integration, and by constructing external boundaries, which separate from the world and the wider church. This approach highlights the fact that the women were not merely passive recipients but participated and contributed to the formation of a distinct Neuendettelsau deaconess culture. Thus, this study offers an explanation for the popularity such institutes enjoyed amongst single and widowed Protestant women in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In consequence, this study significantly widens the scope of historical research on the Institute which so far has tended to take into account solely the male perspective of the Rektoren.
Dr. Judith Lena Bottcher ist lutherische Pfarrerin Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kreuzkirchen Kolbermoor.
- By (author) Judith Lena Böttcher
"Bottcher has written a deeply researched and thoughtfully nuanced study of this deaconess community and the women who constituted it. She has plumbed a rich archive of materials on the life of this community, and her application of social-scientific methods to this material is both appropriate and highly illuminating. Her study leads the reader beyond a binary understanding of women's religious lives in the nineteenth century and invites parallels with similar communities of the time. This is a work that will be very useful to our further understanding of women and religious communities in the modern era." --Granquist, Mark, Luther Seminary
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