{"product_id":"womanpriest-tradition-and-transgression-in-the-contemporary-roman-catholic-church-9780823288274","title":"Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. \u003ci\u003eWomanpriest \u003c\/i\u003eis the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, \u003ci\u003eWomanpriest \u003c\/i\u003eanalyzes the womenpriests' actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post-Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJill M. Peterfeso is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Guilford College. She is a cultural historian of American religion whose published scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality, resistance to authority, and social justice, specifically in Roman Catholicism and Mormonism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434365456658,"sku":"9780823288274","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba612454-ee4b-4e47-ab1d-889a468a2f28.jpg?v=1729599846","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/womanpriest-tradition-and-transgression-in-the-contemporary-roman-catholic-church-9780823288274","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}