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This collection of intimate letters reveals the remarkable radicalism—personal and political—of Mathilde Franziska Anneke. Anneke first became a well-known feminist and democrat in Prussia, earning notoriety for divorcing her first husband and fighting in the German Revolutions of 1848–1849. After moving to the United States, she became a noted proponent of woman suffrage, working with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Like many other refugees of the German revolutions, Anneke was deeply involved in the Civil War. Radical Relationships focuses on the years 1859–1865, which encompassed not only the war but also Anneke’s intense romantic friendship with Yankee abolitionist...
Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter (1892–1943), who was killed at Auschwitz, was a highly gifted pupil of Rudolf Steiner and a member of The Christian Community. Born into a Jewish family in Mannheim, she was deported to Gurs camp in the Pyrénées on October 22, 1940, where she survived harsh conditions and helped many of her fellow inmates. Following temporary sick-leave (under police supervision) in Limonest near Lyon, and a failed attempt to flee to Switzerland, she was brought to Drancy transit camp near Paris before being taken to Auschwitz.
This book offers unique testimony of an individual rooted in esoteric Christianity and Spiritual Science who found sources of inner resistance during...
In 19th-century America, it was assumed that woman patients would be treated by male doctors. The idea of a "woman doctor" was deemed by many to lie somewhere between unfathomable and repugnant. Then along came Susan Dimock. A young North Carolinian who dreamed of becoming a physician, and grew up to practice medicine in Boston, Dimock was not the first American woman to battle the patriarchal medical establishment. But in the 1870s, she was arguably the best-educated, most-skilled woman surgeon in the nation as well as living proof that a woman could be competent, smart, lovely, and kind--all in the same package. Dimock's life reads like an adventure story, from recoiling at slave auctions ...
Es muss sich etwas ändern. Menschen verlassen die Kirche, weil diese für sie keine Rolle mehr spielt. Die Kirche ist gewissermassen aus dem Alltags- und Glaubensleben der Menschen ausgetreten. Im Rückgriff auf die Schreiben und Enzykliken von Papst Franziskus denkt Rudolf Vögele über mögliche Zukunftsstrategien nach: Glaub-würdige Inhalte und Personen sind demnach ebenso wichtig wie Glaubenserfahrungen der Menschen, die es durchaus auch ausserhalb kirchlicher Räume gibt. Das müssen die Kirchen wahr- und ernst nehmen. Der Autor verbindet diese Forderung mit sehr persönlichen Reflexionen und den Erfahrungen aus seiner Arbeit, in seiner Familie und durch den Austausch mit Menschen, die in ganz verschiedenen Verbindungen mit Kirche stehen. Dieses Büchlein ist ein Plädoyer dafür, als Kirchenleute nicht vor den grossen Herausforderungen zu resignieren, sondern offen zu sein für ein neues Verständnis von «glauben». Und für sogenannte Kirchenferne oder aus der Kirche Ausgetretene kann es eine Ermutigung sein, sich dennoch als «Gläubige» zu verstehen. Mit einem Vorwort von Generalvikar Josef Annen.
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