Published: 2023-01-09

Development and activity of female institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life in the catholic church in Sweden

Mariusz Chamarczuk
Seminare. Learned Investigations
Section: Socio-pedagogical sciences
https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2012.32.11

Abstract

Among the many threads of social life in Sweden there is one that not so commonly known, almost imperceptible current in the community of the Catholic Church. It concerns the process of rebirth or the creation of new female orders or female protestant ecumenical societies with similar goals and aims. This phenomenon has a broad and interesting sociological and psychological background. The migration phenomenon researcher is here fascinated by the fact that in a country with a highly developed emancipation and feministic awareness, where the women are perfect models of liberation, more and more there are cases of women’s self fulfillment in a completely different way of life. The rebirth of female religious orders is a sign of the times in a welfare society. It points to the truth that the material and social structures do not provide the modern woman with a possibility to fulfillment of her most inner human wishes.

Keywords:

History of the Catholic Church in Sweden, female religious orders in Swedish, nuns in a postindustrial society

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Chamarczuk , M. (2023). Development and activity of female institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life in the catholic church in Sweden. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 32, 137–149. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2012.32.11

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