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• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 22 May 2018

The White Nuns considers Cistercian women and the women who were their patrons in a clear-eyed reading of narrative texts and administrative records. In rejecting long-accepted misogynies and misreadings, Constance

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 April 2018

Modern studies of the religious reform movement of the central Middle Ages have often relied on contemporary accounts penned by Cistercian monks, who routinely exaggerated the importance of their own

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 30 April 2007

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

• Publisher : Image
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 18 December 2007

Curiosity about nuns and their distinctive clothing is almost as old as Catholicism itself. The habit intrigues the religious and the nonreligious alike, from medieval maidens to contemporary schoolboys, to

• Publisher : Workman Publishing
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• Release Date : 28 May 2008

Hallelujah, it's a book! After proving itself to be the "funniest calendar of the year" (according to Gene Shalit), "irresistible" (USA Weekend), and "habit-forming" (Maxim magazine), the Nuns Having Fun

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2020

In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns, Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of U.S. foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan administration. She challenges the

• Publisher : Historic New Orleans
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• Release Date : 20 May 2010

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 39,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 May 2018

"Modern-day badass drag queen superhero nuns"--"It was like this asteroid belt": the origins and growth of the sisters -- "We are nuns, silly!": serious parody as activism -- "

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 September 2013

Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly

• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2013

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure