Social Motherhood and Spiritual Authority in a Secularizing Age
Moral Welfare Work in the Church of England, 1883–1961
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14948973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy W Jones (0000-0002-7989-1998) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-155 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0966735014555634 |
| OpenAlex | W2333262277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
The article considers how the field of moral welfare and social work empowered religious women, and how these women met the challenge posed by Yeo (1998: 45), ‘to find ways of breaking the material, representational and psychic chains of subordination without reassembling them at the same time in a different form’. Based on an examination of the archival records and reports of these moral welfare organizations the article argues that the spiritual dimension of moral welfare work provided particular resources that empowered women and mitigated the subordinating operation of power in client relationships. These resources were, however, dependent on mutual subscription of religious doctrines, a condition that did not remain stable into the 1960s
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |