TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coburn,Carol
AU  - Smith,Martha
TI  - Spirited lives: how nuns shaped Catholic culture and American life, 1836-1920 
SN  - 0807875716
AV  - BX4220.U6 C63 1999eb
U1  - 271/.90073 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Chapel Hill, N.C.
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - Nuns
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
KW  - Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins
KW  - Vie religieuse et monastique féminine
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Frauenorden
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ordensschwester
KW  - Nonnen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Katholische Kirche
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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
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