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Dedicated to God : an oral history of cloistered nuns / Abbie Reese.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford oral history seriesPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199947942
  • 0199947945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dedicated to GodDDC classification:
  • 271/.973077331 23
LOC classification:
  • BX4328.5.Z9 R63 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Dedicated to God; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION ; Called: Sister Mary Monica ; Part 1: The Call ; 1 COMMUNITY LIFE ; Called: Sister Maria Deo Gratias ; 2 THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC NUN ; Called: Sister Mary Michael ; Part 2: The Life ; 3 MONASTIC LIVING IN A THROWAWAY CULTURE.
Called: Sister Mary Joseph 4 LITTLE HOUSE, BIG HEART ; Called: Sister Mary Clara ; 5 MOTHERS OF SOULS ; Called: Sister Joan Marie ; 6 THE SUFFERING SERVANTS ; Part 3: The Threats ; 7 IDEALISM AND REALITY ; Called: Sister Ann Marie ; 8 ERASED FROM THE LANDSCAPE.
Called: Sister Mary Veronica EPILOGUE ; Acknowledgments ; Appendix: Interviewees ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index.
Summary: As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Abbie Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois. Seldom leaving their 25,000-square-foot gated enclosure, members of this community embrace an extreme version of poverty a.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)660278

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Dedicated to God; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION ; Called: Sister Mary Monica ; Part 1: The Call ; 1 COMMUNITY LIFE ; Called: Sister Maria Deo Gratias ; 2 THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC NUN ; Called: Sister Mary Michael ; Part 2: The Life ; 3 MONASTIC LIVING IN A THROWAWAY CULTURE.

Called: Sister Mary Joseph 4 LITTLE HOUSE, BIG HEART ; Called: Sister Mary Clara ; 5 MOTHERS OF SOULS ; Called: Sister Joan Marie ; 6 THE SUFFERING SERVANTS ; Part 3: The Threats ; 7 IDEALISM AND REALITY ; Called: Sister Ann Marie ; 8 ERASED FROM THE LANDSCAPE.

Called: Sister Mary Veronica EPILOGUE ; Acknowledgments ; Appendix: Interviewees ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index.

As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Abbie Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois. Seldom leaving their 25,000-square-foot gated enclosure, members of this community embrace an extreme version of poverty a.