The New Nuns : : Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s / / Amy L. Koehlinger.
In the 1960s, a number of Catholic women religious in the United States abandoned traditional apostolic works to experiment with new and often unprecedented forms of service among non-Catholics. Amy Koehlinger explores the phenomenon of the "new nun" through close examination of one of its...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: An Apostolic Revolution
- 1 Church and Society: The Emergence of New Nuns
- 2 Education and Training: Tools for Racial Justice
- 3 Vocation and Negotiation: Congregational Dynamics
- 4 Sisters in Selma: Working under Jim Crow
- 5 Project Cabrini: Becoming Sistahs
- 6 The Placement Bureau: Matching Nuns with Needs
- Conclusion: Endings and New Beginnings
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index