...This chapter offers a detailed study of Marian devotion and the reverence for St Joseph expressed in the context of the Holy Family. It explores the ways in which these heavenly personages functioned as ideals and models for rightly ordered, but societally adaptive, understandings of femininity...

...This chapter explores the question of the nature of the alienation of the bourgeoisie under capitalism. In particular, it considers the distinction made by Karl Marx in The Holy Family between the alienation endured by the worker and the alienation endured by the capitalist...

... of French vocal technique, such as the Notes Inégales, were very similar to African American music. Founded in the 1830s by three Free Women of Color Les Soeur de la Sainte-Famille—The Sisters of the Holy Family—also used music as an important part of their educational...

...The Holy Family, as such, is all but absent in Christian imagination and devotion for the first thousand years of the Church’s existence. In close connection to the cult of St Joseph, the Holy Family gains new prominence toward the end of the medieval period, and then grows dramatically...

...This chapter brings the history of the Santuario and debates over religious ownership into the present. In 1959 Father Casimiro Roca (of the Sons of the Holy Family) becomes the first full-time priest at the Santuario in its history, and under his leadership, the place grows from an important...

... of the region. The liturgy in this monastery is characterized by four features: (i) a local hagiographical tradition through adding the names of many local saints to the memento sanctorum, such as Hermina, Isidore, and Sana; (ii) the presence of the Holy Family in the place; (iii) the rite...

...After traveling through the Sinai, the Holy Family, according to tradition, walked from east to west through the Nile Delta. The various written and oral traditions mention eight place names associated with this journey in the Delta: Tell Basta, Musturud/Mahamma, Bilbeis, Daqadus, Samannud...

... to confer an aura of sanctity onto the world of his protagonists. Haifa University Hoffman Yoel meta poetics mother birth virgin brother Jesus as Duality of Jesus family father holiness Holy Family the Joseph Jesus’ father longing Mary Other otherness parent Postmodernism son threatening...

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... in great detail, and attribute to Joseph a formative role in Jesus' development into adulthood and into a mature understanding of his own mission. 1 18–21 1 27 2 4 2 27 3 23 4 22 1 45 6 42 26 29 9 1–2 37 1–4 6 4 28 12 23 46 paternity apocryphal Gospels Gospels Holy Family family values...

...The Sisters of the Holy Family and Northern Federation of California Colored Women’s Clubs answered the demand for childcare by repurposing houses in West Oakland. Welfare officials were wary of any intervention that made it easier for a mother to work outside her home, and white supremacists could...

...Dayr al-Muharraq could very well be the most blessed place in Egypt for Christian Egyptians. The fame of Dayr al-Muharraq is linked to its history—a history that is very much dependent on the traditions of the Holy Family's sojourn on the spot, Qusqam, where the monastery now stands. On what...

...This chapter examines Plato's view on the Virgin Mary and the Holy Family. It explains that Trinitarian pluralism can better accommodate Plato's Holy Family and that in his Agathon Plato suggested that the birth of love meant that it has replaced the god's strife. The chapter...

... with the opening scene in which Mary learns of her impending death from the Christ-angel and proceeds with a discussion of marital disagreement between Joseph and Mary, the restoration of harmony in the Holy Family, and the secret prayer that will enable the soul to pass through various ‘worlds’ during its ascent...

...The historical Christmas story begins with the Incarnation of Christ in Nazareth and concludes with the return of the Holy Family to Galilee. This chapter focuses upon twelve select paintings from the Renaissance to the Baroque period which illustrate the events recorded in Gospel and Apocryphal...