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Rose-Marie Peake - Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities

Av Rose-Marie Peake

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The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the activities aimed at edifying morality in the different strata of society revealed a Christian anthropology with strong links to medieval traditions. The book argues that this was an important survival strategy for the Company with a disconcerting religious identity: the non-cloistered lifestyle of its members engaged in charity work had been made unlawful in the Council of Trent. Moreover, the directors Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul also had to find ways to curtail internal resistance as the sisters rebelled in quest of a more contemplative and enclosed vocation.
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Dr Rose-Marie Peake is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University. She specializes in the religious and gender history of early modern France.

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Books like Rose-Marie Peake’s The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identity show how even writings with a practical lens, such as those aimed at creating the unique identity of the Daughters of Charity by Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul, have unrecognized importance in the way they developed their theology intentionally to shape the character both of the Daughters as an active order of women and, through the Daughters, to influence society as well. In the case of writings from the Daughters of Charity, the portrayal of Marillac provides a model to teach not only through words, but also through example. Key to Peake’s argument is the concept of “moral management,” that is, the way an organization lives out a value system and transmits that value system to others. As part of the “Crossing Boundaries” series, Peake employs this interdisciplinary concept for the first time in studies of the seventeenth century. [...] This book would appeal to anyone interested in the voices of women in the Catholic tradition, but particularly to those with an interest in early modern women or early modern French theology and spirituality. -- Elissa Cutter, Georgian Court University. The Catholic Historical Review 2025.

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