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| Institutions | University of Oklahoma |
| Website | http://www.carrieschroeder.com/ |
Caroline Theresa Schroeder (born 1971) is professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Oklahoma. [1] She is an expert on early Christianity.
Schroeder is the daughter of Mary M. Schroeder.
Schroeder received her PhD from Duke University in 2002. Her thesis was entitled Disciplining the Monastic Body:Asceticism,Ideology,and Gender in the Egyptian Monastery of Shenoute of Atripe. [2] She received her MA from Duke University in Religion in 1998,and her BA from Brown University in Religious Studies in 1993.
Before her appointment as professor at the University of Oklahoma,Schroeder was a professor at the University of the Pacific. [3] She co-founded and co-directs the ground-breaking digital project Coptic Scriptorium. [4] [5] She has published extensively on women,gender,and monasticism. Her work has been described as 'immensely promising for scholars in the areas of late antiquity,gender studies and early Christian studies'. [6] The volume she edited with Catherine M. Chin,Melania:Early Christianity through the Life of One Family. Christianity in late antiquity,came out of a symposium in honor of Elizabeth A. Clark held in 2013.
Schroeder has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),the American Council of Learned Societies,the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation,and the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. [7] Since 2013,the NEH have awarded Schroeder (and co-Project Director Amir Zeldes) multiple grants to digitize Coptic texts and to create and expand a suite of language processing tools to better analyze documents written in Coptic. [8] [9] [10]
Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt,revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony,such as Anthony of Padua,by various epithets:Anthony of Egypt,Anthony the Abbot,Anthony of the Desert,Anthony the Anchorite,Anthony the Hermit,and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christian monasticism,he is also known as the Father of All Monks. His feast day is celebrated on 17 January among the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches and on Tobi 22 in the Coptic calendar.
Monasticism,also called monachism or monkhood,is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. Monastic life plays an important role in many Christian churches,especially in the Catholic,Orthodox and Anglican traditions as well as in other faiths such as Buddhism,Hinduism,and Jainism. In other religions,monasticism is criticized and not practiced,as in Islam and Zoroastrianism,or plays a marginal role,as in modern Judaism.
Pachomius,also known as Saint Pachomius the Great,is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. Coptic churches celebrate his feast day on 9 May,and Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches mark his feast on 15 May or 28 May. In the Lutheran Church,he is remembered as a renewer of the church,along with his contemporary,Anthony of Egypt on 17 January.
Peter the Iberian was a Georgian royal prince,theologian and philosopher who was a prominent figure in early Christianity and one of the founders of Christian Neoplatonism. Some have claimed that he is the author known conventionally as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship. It began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church,modeled upon scriptural examples and ideals,including those in the Old Testament. It has come to be regulated by religious rules and,in modern times,the Canon law of the respective Christian denominations that have forms of monastic living. Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms monks (men) and nuns (women). The word monk originated from the Greek μοναχός,itself from μόνος meaning 'alone'.
Shenoute of Atripe,also known as Shenoute the Great or Saint Shenoute the Archimandrite was the abbot of the White Monastery in Egypt. He is considered a saint by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and is one of the most renowned saints of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Pambo was a Coptic Desert Father of the fourth century and disciple of Anthony the Great. His feast day is July 18 among the Oriental Orthodox,Eastern Orthodox,and Catholic churches.
Eastern Christian monasticism is the life followed by monks and nuns of the Eastern Orthodox Church,Oriental Orthodoxy,the Church of the East and Eastern Catholicism. Eastern monasticism is founded on the Rule of St Basil and is sometimes thus referred to as Basilian.
The degrees of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monasticism are the stages an Eastern Orthodox monk or nun passes through in their religious vocation.
Abraham of Farshut was an abbot and is a saint of the Coptic Church,and by extension all of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. His feast day in the calendar of saints of the Coptic Church is February 12.
Coptic literature is the body of writings in the Coptic language of Egypt,the last stage of the indigenous Egyptian language. It is written in the Coptic alphabet. The study of the Coptic language and literature is called Coptology.
Coptic monasticism was a movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church to create a holy,separate class of person from layman Christians.
Dr. Gawdat Gabra is a Coptologist;he finished his bachelor's degree in Egyptian Antiquities –Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of Münster –Germany 1978. He studied in the Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague,too.
Monasticism is a way of life where a person lives outside of society,under religious vows.
St. Mother Irini was the Coptic Abbess of the St. Philopateer Mercurius’Convent in Old Cairo,Egypt and an influential figure in the Coptic Christian community of Egypt.
Desert Mothers is a neologism,coined in feminist theology as an analogy to Desert Fathers,for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt,Palestine,and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. They typically lived in the monastic communities that began forming during that time,though sometimes they lived as hermits. Monastic communities acted collectively with limited outside relations with lay people. Some ascetics chose to venture into isolated locations to restrict relations with others,deepen spiritual connection,and other ascetic purposes. Other women from that era who influenced the early ascetic or monastic tradition while living outside the desert are also described as Desert Mothers.
Susanna K. Elm is a German historian and classicist. She is the Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of European History at the Department of History at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research interests include the history of the later Roman Empire,late Antiquity and early Christianity. She is Associate Editor of the journals Church History and Studies in Late Antiquity and is a member of the editorial board for Classical Antiquity.
Elizabeth Ann Clark was a professor of the John Carlisle Kilgo professorship of religion at Duke University. She was notable for her work in the field of Patristics,and the teaching of ancient Christianity in US higher education. Clark expanded the study of early Christianity and was a strong advocate for women,pioneering the application of modern theories such as feminist theory,social network theory,and literary criticism to ancient sources.
Ellen Muehlberger is an American scholar of Christianity and late antiquity,Professor of History and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with appointments in Classical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
Tim Vivian is an American scholar of early Christianity,Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at California State University,Bakersfield,and a retired priest of the Episcopal Church.
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