Title (All Applicants)
Feminism and Faith: How Women Find Empowerment in the Roman Catholic Church
Project Advisor(s) (Students Only)
Dr. Emily Kahm
Presentation Type (All Applicants)
Oral Presentation
Disciplines (All Applicants)
Catholic Studies | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
This project examines the relationship between feminism and Catholicism, focusing on whether or not women feel empowered by the Roman Catholic Church. Female members of the Augustana community were surveyed and asked to share their own experiences with their Catholic faith.
Themes discussed include the decision to stay in the Church versus the decision to leave, the importance of Catholicism as a cultural identity, and the multitude of ways women have found to empower themselves within the existing Church structure.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Schar, Amanda. "Feminism and Faith: How Women Find Empowerment in the Roman Catholic Church" (2019). Celebration of Learning.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/celebrationoflearning/2019/presentations/5
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Feminism and Faith: How Women Find Empowerment in the Roman Catholic Church
This project examines the relationship between feminism and Catholicism, focusing on whether or not women feel empowered by the Roman Catholic Church. Female members of the Augustana community were surveyed and asked to share their own experiences with their Catholic faith.
Themes discussed include the decision to stay in the Church versus the decision to leave, the importance of Catholicism as a cultural identity, and the multitude of ways women have found to empower themselves within the existing Church structure.
Comments
Honor's Capstone