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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825423603321

Autore

Coburn Carol

Titolo

Spirited lives : how nuns shaped Catholic culture and American life, 1836-1920 / / by Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c1999

ISBN

979-88-908698-5-2

0-8078-7571-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithMartha <1928 Sept. 7->

Disciplina

271/.90073

Soggetti

Nuns - United States - History

Monasticism and religious orders for women - United States - History

Monastic and religious life of women - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Religion and Gender in Women's Lives; Unique Characteristics of Communities of Women Religious; Notes; 1. The French Connection: Founders, Origins, and Early Activities; Life in Seventeenth-Century France; Active Communities of Women; CSJ Origins and Activities before the Revolution; The French Revolution and After; Notes; 2. Creating an American Identity: Survival and Expansion in the American Milieu; Notes; 3. Educating the Good Sister: Gender and Religious Identity; Notes

4. Expanding American Catholic Culture: The Trans-Mississippi West Urban West; Southwest/lndian Mission School; Colorado Mining Frontier; Notes; 5. Promulgating the Faith: Parochial Schools and American Catholic Identity; Notes; 6. Educating for Catholic Womanhood: Secondary Academies and Women's Colleges; Notes; 7. Succoring the Needy: Nursing, Hospitals, and Social Sciences; Nursing and Hospitals; Orphanages and Other Social Services; Financing and Networking with Laity; Notes; Epilogue; Post- 1920; Notes; Notes; Abbreviations; Selected Bibliography; Index; A-B; C; D; E; F-G; H-I; J-M; N-P

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