|
Female monasticism in early modern Europe
|
Cordula van Wyhe |
"This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines o… |
OL18812472W |
|
The anchoress
|
Robyn Cadwallader |
"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the sid… |
OL20000808W |
|
The English text of the Ancrene riwle, the 'Vernon' text
|
Bernhard Diensberg,Arne Zettersten |
"Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), a guide for anchoresses composed in the thirteenth century, served as a popular guide to spirituality and the religious life until the sixteenth century.… |
OL20649161W |
|
Unveiled
|
Cheryl L. Reed |
Drawing on interviews with three hundred nuns from a variety of orders, a study of convent life describes their daily lives, worship services, vow ceremonies, friendships, attitude toward the modern … |
OL20953791W |
|
Medieval women monastics
|
Miriam Schmitt |
xi, 284 pages : 23 cm |
OL20965291W |
|
Sister trouble
|
Marian Ronan |
"In twenty-three memorable essays, Sister Trouble chronicles the recent crackdown on U.S. sisters by the male hierarchy of the Catholic church, situating it within the history of gender relations fro… |
OL24159279W |
|
Femmes sans frontières
|
Chantal Gauthier |
Récit passionnant des cent ans d'une communauté religieuse au service de l'Église missionnaire. Des soeurs qui ont contribué à l'édification d'une société plus humaine dans plusieurs domaines où elle… |
OL24826374W |
|
For the Love of God
|
Lucy Kaylin |
In this provocative work, Lucy Kaylin explores myths and debunks stereotypes to present a rich and varied portrait of modern nuns at a dramatic moment in their history: Nuns in the United States are … |
OL277261W |
|
Transformational leadership
|
Annmarie Sanders |
In 2009, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)--an organization representing 300 orders of sisters in the United States--suddenly gained wide attention following a critical doctrinal as… |
OL28172934W |
|
The good Sams
|
Margaret Walsh |
In February 1857, in a derelict former gaol in Sydney's Pitt Street South, a group of five women women donned the habit and began their religious formation, becoming the first congregation of religio… |
OL28178402W |
|
Out of the Cloister
|
Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh |
Since Vatican Council II, convent walls have crumbled. and the structures that once separated nuns from the world are gone. Out of the Cloister is an organizational analysis of the structural and ide… |
OL4280327W |
|
In wisdom thou hast made them
|
Ruth Mother, C.H.S. |
The book was copyrighted 1986 and written by Mother Ruth, who was born Ruth Elaine Younger, in New York City in 1897. After Joining the (Anglican) Sisterhood of St John the Divine in Canada in the 1… |
OL5273936W |