Roman Catholic laywomen’s “turn to habit” as a strategy of developing modern pious womanhood: Catholic female social reformers in France, Germany and Partitioned Poland between 1878-1914.

Información del proyecto

Habit

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 708008

DOI

10.3030/708008

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 12 Abril 2016

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2016

Fecha de finalización 1 Mayo 2019

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 172 477,20

Aportación de la UE

€ 172 477,20

Coordinado por

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
Italy

Objetivo

The project’s objective is to explain the meaning of habitual mental and bodily practices for the nineteenth century Catholic laywomen’s program of developing modern pious womanhood and further interprets those women’s interest in habit as part of the broader contemporary religious, intellectual, and socio-cultural inquisitiveness in routinized actions. The research employs a transnational approach privileging individuals, networks, and debates in France, Germany and Partitioned Poland between 1878-1914. The Catholic laywomen’s focus on habit will be retrieved through analyses of their pedagogical writings and educational models and subsequently confronted with contemporary conceptualizations of habitual action as found in the epoch-making theological, philosophical and scientific theories and selected social practices. It is argued that in a context in which women could formally engage with theology, philosophy and science in very limited ways those lay activists’ religious or pedagogical writings and educational practices were distinctive ways of participating in major contemporary disquiets over the limits of human agency and plasticity of human behavior. With their interventions in the concept of habit those Catholic laywomen joined the nineteenth century efforts of overcoming body-mind, freedom-necessity, and spirit-matter dualisms. The research adds to the field of women’s history by proposing new motives and periodization of the nineteenth century Catholic laywomen’s activism’s emergence and providing novel interpretations of their actions in a transnational perspective. This multidisciplinary project will expand my competences with insights from several fields of academic inquiry. Marie Curie Fellowship will provide me with triple experience as a researcher, project manager and a science communicator, which will give me confidence in planning, executing and delivering projects independently in the future.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• humanidades › historia y arqueología › historia
• ciencias sociales › ciencias de la educación › pedagogía
• ciencias sociales › ciencias políticas › transiciones políticas › revoluciones
• humanidades › filosofía, ética y religión › religión
• humanidades › filosofía, ética y religión › filosofía

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2015-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Coordinador

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 172 477,20
• Dirección: VIA DEI ROCCETTINI 9 ; 50014 Fiesole ; Italia
• Región: Centro (IT) › Toscana › Firenze
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 172 477,20