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Spirited lives : how nuns shaped Catholic culture and American life, 1836-1920
- Title
- Spirited lives : how nuns shaped Catholic culture and American life, 1836-1920 / Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith.
- Author
- Coburn, Carol.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BX4220.U6 C63 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Smith, Martha, 1928 September 7-
- Description
- xii, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, American nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention. Instead, their lives and achievements have been obscured by myths or distorted by stereotypes. Placing nuns into the mainstream of American religious and women's history for the first time, ###Spirited Lives# reveals their critical impact on the development of Catholic culture and, ultimately, the building of American society.
- Focusing on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, one of the largest and most diverse American sisterhoods, Carol Coburn and Martha Smith explore how nuns directly influenced the lives of millions of Americans, both Catholic and non-Catholic, through their work in schools, hospitals, orphanages, and other social service institutions. Far from functioning as passive handmaidens for Catholic clergy and parishes, nuns created, financed, and administered these institutions, struggling with, and at times resisting, male secular and clerical authority.
- Subject
- Catholic Church > United States > History
- Catholic Church
- Katholische Kirche
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Nuns > United States > History
- Monasticism and religious orders for women > United States > History
- Monastic and religious life of women > United States > History
- Monastic and religious life of women
- Monasticism and religious orders for women
- Nuns
- Nonne
- Religiöses Leben
- Frauenorden
- Ordensschwester
- Nonnen
- Katholische Kirche
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index.
- Contents
- The French connection : founders, origins, and early activities -- Creating an American identity : survival and expansion in the American milieu -- Educating the good Sister : gender and religious identity -- Expanding American Catholic culture : the trans-Mississippi west -- Promulgating the faith : parochial schools and American Catholic identity -- Educating for Catholic womanhood : secondary academies and women's colleges -- Succoring the needy : nursing, hospitals, and social services.
- ISBN
- 0807824739
- 9780807824733
- 0807847747
- 9780807847749
- LCCN
- 98030828
- OCLC
- ocm39724119
- 39724119
- SCSB-861370
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library