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When Women Become Priests : The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate

When Women Become Priests : The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate Paperback - 2000

by Kelley A. Raab

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  • Title When Women Become Priests : The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate
  • Author Kelley A. Raab
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0231113358I3N00
  • ISBN 9780231113359 / 0231113358
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 5.98 x 0.69 in (22.76 x 15.19 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 1470
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church - Clergy, Women priests
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99049657
  • Dewey Decimal Code 262.142

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First line

This book is about what will happen when women become Catholic priests.

From the rear cover

While numerous provocative works have sought to justify why women should be ordained as Catholic priests, When Women Become Priests is the first sustained reflection on the differences that would obtain with women at the altar. In the face of a centuries-old tradition of a male priesthood, what are the implications for the Catholic church of ordaining women? Would women priests become co-opted into the male clerical caste, particularly in relation to celebrating the sacraments? In an analysis that deftly unites feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, and Catholic theology, Kelley A. Raab explores the symbolic implications of women at the altar, providing rich insight into issues of gender, symbolism, and power.

When Women Become Priests addresses critical issues about the effect of a female priest on the parishioners she would serve, on the sacrament of communion, and on the significance of the symbolism of Jesus that priests maintain during certain ceremonies. Rooted in her firm belief in the place of women within the Catholic priesthood, Raab's work is one that -- rather than reducing religious convictions to psychological construct -- seeks to reinvigorate these convictions for the contemporary world.

Supported by interviews with women in the Episcopal priesthood (which has ordained women since 1977), Raab draws upon object-relations theory, Freudian concepts of the unconscious, and French feminist thinkers Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray to show how the celebration of mass by women priests would require a constructive reenvisioning of core dimensions of Catholic theology.

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Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2001, Page 1810

About the author

Kelley A. Raab is assistant professor of Religious Studies at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.