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

Rozwój i działalność żeńskich instytutów życia konsekrowanego i stowarzyszeń życia apostolskiego w kościele katolickim w Szwecji
Development and activity of female institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life in the catholic church in Sweden

Author(s): Mariusz Chamarczuk
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego (TNFS)
Keywords: History of the Catholic Church in Sweden; female religious orders; in Swedish; nuns in a postindustrial society

Summary/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.

  • Issue Year: 32/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-149
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish