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Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The American Foundations of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Author: The American Foundations of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Author: Jeremiah RudsdellThe Foundations of the Sisters of Notre Dame, from 1845 to 1895
Author: New Women of the Old Faith
Author: Kathleen Sprows CummingsPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832499
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"Cummings highlights four women: Chicago-based journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia McGroarty, SND, founder of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., one of the first Catholic women's colleges; Philadelphia educator Sister Assisium McEvoy, SSJ; and Katherine Eleanor Conway, a Boston editor, public figure, and antisuffragist. Cummings uses each woman's story to explore how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles. By examining female power within Catholic religious communities and organizations, she challenges the widespread assumption that women who were faithful members of a patriarchal church were incapable of pathbreaking work on behalf of women.".
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the United States, 1840-1940
Author: International Federation of the Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae AssociationsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
American Women in Mission
Author: Dana Lee RobertPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of bringing the world to Jesus Christ.Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with particular theologies to share, but their identities as women caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task. The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe advancement of the reign of God.By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in their first decades there and are not traced into the present. Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.
Venerable John Neumann, C.SS.R.
Author: Michael Joseph CurleyPublisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Foundations of the Sisters of Notre Dame in England and Scotland from 1845 to 1895
Author: Orders and Associations (MARY, the Blessed Virgin). Sisters of Notre Dame in England and ScotlandPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Sister Louise
Author: Helen Louise NugentWomen in American Religion
Author: Janet Wilson JamesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Cotton Mather called them "the hidden ones." Although historians of religion occasionally refer to the fact that women have always constituted a majority of churchgoers, until recently none of them have investigated the historical implications of the situation or v the role of woman in the church. But the focus of church history has been moving toward a broader awareness, from studying religious institutions and their pastors to studying the people—the laity—and the nature of religious experience. This book explores the many common elements of this experience for women in church and temple, regardless of their differences in faith.