Gender and Class in Nineteenth‐Century Catholic Charity: Categories of Difference in the Discourses and Practices of the Belgian Vincentians.
During the nineteenth century, Catholic charity was an important source of poor relief in Belgium, as well as a means for Catholics to practice and express their devotion. Driven by a renewed religious fervour, men and women actively engaged in lay charitable organisations with the purpose of servin...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious History Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 110 - 134 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2023
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