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.

Informations projet

Habit

N° de convention de subvention: 708008

DOI

10.3030/708008

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 12 Avril 2016

Date de début 1 Septembre 2016

Date de fin 1 Mai 2019

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 172 477,20

Contribution de l’UE

€ 172 477,20

Coordonné par

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
Italy

Objectif

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.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

• lettres › histoire et archéologie › histoire
• sciences sociales › sciences de l'éducation › pédagogie
• sciences sociales › science politique › transition politique › révolution
• lettres › philosophie, éthique et religion › religion
• lettres › philosophie, éthique et religion › philosophie

Programme(s)

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

Thème(s)

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

Régime de financement

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Appel à propositions

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Coordinateur

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

• Contribution nette de l'UE: € 172 477,20
• Adresse: VIA DEI ROCCETTINI 9 ; 50014 Fiesole ; Italie
• Région: Centro (IT) › Toscana › Firenze
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: € 172 477,20