Nuns Without Cloister

Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Marguerite Vacher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

460 Seiten

2010
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4342-9 (ISBN)

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Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of mid-seventeenth century France and quietly broke the ecclesiastical and cultural barriers that opposed it. This book opens perspectives on the sisters' success through a politics of discretion and the introduction of creative variety in their lives in country parishes or in the urban orphanages, hospitals, and reformatories for fallen women of the ancien régime. Vacher's methodology, comparing the congregation's theoretical, prescriptive documents with evidence about the actual life of these communities in southern France, leads to the question of whether and to what degree succeeding generations grasped the original inspiration.
Sisters of St. Joseph preceding the French Revolution established a paradigm for the active, apostolic women's congregations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that supplied the workforce behind Catholic schools, colleges, hospitals, and orphanages in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. In researching them, Nuns Without Cloister addresses a little understood but central dimension in the early modern foundations of contemporary Catholicism.

Marguerite (Sister Thérèse) Vacher, CSJ has been involved in research, teaching, and writing on the origins of the Sisters of St. Joseph since 1965 and holds the Doctorat d'Histoire moderne from the Université Lumière Lyon 2. Her publications include the critical edition of Sœurs de Saint-Joseph: Textes primitives (1981) and Des "régulières" dans le siècle: Les sœursde Saint-Joseph du P. Médaille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1991). She resides in Clermont-Ferrand.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Religious Life For Women in Seventeenth-Century France Part 2 Part One: The Genesis of the "Little Design" Chapter 3 Introduction to Part One: Le Puy-en-Valey in the Seventeenth-Century Chapter 4 1. The Founders Chapter 5 2. Beginners Chapter 6 3. Early Growth Part 7 Conclusion to Part One: The Genesis and Its Fruit Part 8 Part Two: Normative Texts and Actual Life in Communities of St. Joseph Chapter 9 Introduction to Part Two: Expansion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 10 4. The First Printed Constitutions - Vienne, 1694 Chapter 11 5. The Superiors Role: A Key to Life in the Communities Chapter 12 6. Structures of Daily Life Chapter 13 7. Principal Houses and Souers agrégées Chapter 14 Conclusion: Father Medaille's Legacy

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.2010
Übersetzer	Patricia Byrne
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 236 mm
Gewicht	708 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7618-4342-6 / 0761843426
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-4342-9 / 9780761843429
Zustand	Neuware