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Title: Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara ISBN: 0-674-80984-X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A valuable resource where few exist...
Comment: One of the only books available to provide an overview of the orders from beginning to recent times. Readers are likely to be surprised by the diversity of the early orders, and the range of growth and the transitions they have made over the centuries. The majority of the text describes the development of the orders, providing fascinating insight to some of the practises that have come and gone over the years. Detailing social culture that surrounded the convents as well as the communities within the convents, it provides context to the lives of the nuns. This book may not present the ideally framed version of history many would like to see, especially if you're pursuing some notion of blissful cloistered weak women protected by the Church. Politics aside, this is a compelling view into the lives of women through the centuries who have exhibited strength in their dedication to their ideals with or without the aid of men.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very narrow presentation
Comment: The author cannot be faulted for research, but the presentation is focussed entirely on such "male oppression" as nuns endured. Anyone looking for compelling spirituality, a full look at the incredible achievements of religious in any century, or even recognition of the fact that the professional and educational achievements of religious Sisters far exceeded that which other women could begin to hope for in recent centuries will be disappointed.
It is unbalanced, rather dismal, and not likely to appeal to anyone unless her philosophy of religious life is entirely one of a fight between the sexes.
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Title: Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America by John J. Fialka ISBN: 0312262299 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Habit : A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns by Elizabeth Kuhns ISBN: 0385505884 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Lying Awake by Mark Salzman, Mark Salzman ISBN: 0375706062 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Witness to Integrity: The Crisis of the Immaculate Heart Community of California by Anita Marie Caspary, Susan Marie Maloney ISBN: 0814627706 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Roman Catholicism in America by Chester Gillis ISBN: 0231108710 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
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