Nuns Without Cloister (eBook)

Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Marguerite Vacher (Autor)

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2009
460 Seiten
Upa (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4343-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 regime. 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.

Autor

Marguerite (Sister ThZr_se) 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 UniversitZ Lumi_re Lyon 2. Her publications include the critical edition of SIurs de Saint-Joseph: Textes primitives (1981) and Des 'rZguli_res' dans le si_cle: Les sIursde Saint-Joseph du P. MZdaille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe si_cles (1991). She resides in Clermont-Ferrand.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: Religious Life For Women in Seventeenth-Century France Chapter 2 Chapter One: The Genesis of the Little Design Chapter 3 Introduction to Chapter One: Le Puy-en-Valey in the Seventeenth-Century Chapter 4 1. The Founders Chapter 5 2. Beginners Chapter 6 3. Early Growth Chapter 7 Conclusion to Chapter One: The Genesis and Its Fruit Chapter 8 Chapter Two: Normative Texts and Actual Life in Communities of St. Joseph Chapter 9 Introduction to Chapter 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2009
• Übersetzer: Patricia Byrne
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-4343-4 / 0761843434
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-4343-6 / 9780761843436