{"id":1896,"date":"2005-09-27T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T12:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/a-dissertation-topic-for-you.html"},"modified":"2005-09-27T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T12:04:26","slug":"a-dissertation-topic-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/a-dissertation-topic-for-you.html","title":{"rendered":"A dissertation topic for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been done. I&#8217;d like to read something on this that&#8217;s truly objective: The impact of the Reformation on the status of European women.&nbsp; &nbsp;I&#8217;m reading through some materials on the reformers and Mary Magdalene, and encountering not only the expected misogyny, but, in addition a contempt for single, independent women (aka, translated into the period &#8211; women not married, aka women in religious communities, although they&#8217;re not exactly &quot;independent.) &#8211; and the strong sense that all women, without exception, should be married and under the authority of a husband. Much later, in the early modern period, especially with the advent of Wesleyan innovations, you find a tolerance for female preaching (I know, I&#8217;m conflating scads of issues here, and not taking into accout socio-economic changes), but I&#8217;m just wondering if, in that 16th-18th century period in Reformation countries, the perceieved role and purpose of women actually shifted in a less-independent paradigm than it was withing traditional Catholic thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been done. I&#8217;d like to read something on this that&#8217;s truly objective: The impact of the Reformation on the status of European women.&nbsp; &nbsp;I&#8217;m reading through some materials on the reformers and Mary Magdalene, and encountering not only the expected misogyny, but, in addition a contempt for single, independent women (aka, translated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A dissertation topic for you - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/a-dissertation-topic-for-you.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A dissertation topic for you - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been done. 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