Research Catalog

Title

Models of charitable care : Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 / by Annelies van Heijst.

Author

Heijst, Annelies van.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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Details

Description

x, 414 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Models of Charitable Care analyses the practice of Catholic nuns in Amsterdam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and examines ambiguity within the spirituality that permeates their work."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; v. 33. Religious history and culture series ; v. 1

Uniform Title

• Liefdewerk. English
• Brill's series in church history ; d. 33.
• Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 1.

Alternative Title

Liefdewerk.

Subject

• Arme Zusters van het Goddelijk Kind
• Zusters van 'De Voorzienigheid' (1970)
• Zusters van de Voorzienigheid
• Geschichte 1852-2002
• Church work with children > Catholic Church
• Church work with children > Netherlands > Amsterdam
• Nuns > Netherlands > Amsterdam
• Church work with children
• Nuns
• Kinderfürsorge
• Netherlands > Amsterdam

Note

• Translated from the Dutch.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-408) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- History of the problem -- A history of care -- Charity as a historical care practice -- History and ethics -- Care and faith -- Method and purpose -- Definitions of care -- Caring for roosje -- Reconstruction of a life story -- Tribute to a mother -- Construction of a complaint -- An appropriate and yet contestable judgement on care -- Men in association : class and charity -- Catholic care provision in Amsterdam -- Bishop van Vree -- Father Frentrop, Doctor Cramer and their association of municence -- Father Hesseveld, a secular priest -- Activities of the in terms of care -- An instrumental model of charity -- Ladies and housemaids : gender and charity Catholic caring women in historiography -- Education for girls -- The servants' issue -- Beyond the thesis of the 'civilisation offensive' -- Gender, class, and religion -- Powerful and empowering care : confession and charity -- Approach and definitions -- Benevolence as both care and power -- Humanising Protestantism -- Prison reform by Fry -- Butler's dedication to prostitutes -- Influence of Fry and Butler on the Netherlands -- The inner mission movement -- Conceptual comments -- From the viewpoint of care receivers -- Evelina's memoirs -- The very beginning -- The arrival of Mietje Stroot -- A controversial first communion -- Institutional expansion -- Nursemaids become real sisters -- A charitable care practice experienced from within -- Civilisation offensive, charitable solidarity, or caring power -- Tronto's fourth phase revised : two responses to care -- Care leavers and their opposite judgements -- The care vision in the normative texts -- Normative writings and daily life -- History of the church and history of religion -- Principles and a name -- The rule -- Instructions for the upbringing of the children -- The constitutions of 1882 -- The sisterly care vision : a referential and a replacement view -- The purpose of the congregation in terms of care solidarity with strangers because of metaphorical kinship -- Caring for the children of God.

ISBN

• 9789004168336
• 9004168338

LCCN

2008015938

OCLC

• ocn213318556
• 213318556
• SCSB-1486276

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library