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Author: Marge Rogers Barrett
Publisher: Antrim House
Published: 2016-05-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1943826064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Margaret Rogers grew up in a large family in a small town on the prairie, lively and free-spirited. But in high school, God called her. In 1963, she entered the convent to become Sister Zoe. And then she was called again.
Author: Brian Titley
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-06-10
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1476689571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the first scandals broke in the mid-1980s, the sexual misconducts of priests have cost the Catholic Church in America more than $4 billion in compensation settlements and incalculable damage to its reputation. Although their crimes have attracted far less attention, predatory nuns have also caused harm. The depredations of these nuns took place in convent novitiates, orphanages, boarding schools for Native Americans, and in Catholic schools, both elementary and secondary. Their victims, male and female, ranged in age from six-year-olds to young adults. This book focuses on the criminal behavior of North American nuns and the responses from church leadership. Mothers superior were outspoken in their refusal to accept responsibility for the crimes committed under their watch, and their inclination was to close ranks and protect the predators, endangering many children and young people in the process. The complainants, on the other hand, were considered nuisances to be pushed aside with the least amount of exposure and expense possible. Straightforward and informative, this text begins by exploring the nuns' vow of chastity and its relationship with human sexuality, followed by dozens of case studies detailing the sexual abuse that nuns committed in various settings.
Author: Rachel Ethier Rosenbaum
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781490911304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of a spiritual struggle with a life commitment in the repressive and rigid environments that were characteristic of religious orders of the 1950s and 1960s. In a way, it is a coming of age story - a search to either reaffirm or reject fundamental beliefs.
Author: Frank Bures
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 194874242X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America‚Äôs literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world. Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included here have won, or been shortlisted for, the Newbery Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer, the Caldecott Award, the National Book Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and many others.
Author: Raphael Samuel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 131545050X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1989, this is the second of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique. This volume examines how national identity has competed with alternative, more personal forms of belonging — such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Nonconformism — as well looking at femininity in relation to the state. Contemporary British society’s capacity to create outsiders is discussed and the introductory essay shows how this may shape our misunderstanding of earlier phases of national development.
Author: Broadview Custom Texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2021-02-22
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1554593417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This product is a Broadview Custom text made available here for students in Professor James King's English 1G03: Making and Unmaking Literary Traditions course at McMaster University.
Author: Mary Hilaire Tavenner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2001-11-27
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1465320148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Visit the author's website at www.DutchInk.com After leaving her religious order, in October of 1984, Hilaire had two ambitions: to write a realistic book about convent life and to earn a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. Working full time as a teacher made her realize one of these ambitions would have to wait, so after starting her book, Nun of This and Nun of That, she set it aside for the next eight years until she earned her doctorate. Her novel spans almost ten years of religious life, starting in 1963 when twenty-five young women all enter a convent in Albany, New York. This is a story of all the girls, but particularly three who enter, live, stay-in and leave religious life for various reasons. The author invites the reader into the secret cloisters of convent living, beyond the front parlor, once the only space available to visitors. Every life experience is unique to every woman in religious life, but the adventures and journeys of these three girls reveal the joys, sorrows, trials, tribulations, and triumphs of convent living during and after the Second Vatican Council. Dr. Tavenner calls her book, realistic fiction though most of it is based on true stories. Dr. Tavenner living among her community members for almost twenty years, and even while in the convent began the groundwork and outlines for this book. Many may be incensed or indignant of her portrayal of characters, but for the men and women familiar with convent living, the Church and priesthood of the 1960's, Nun of This and Nun of That is deja vu.
Author: Kathryn Burns
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822322917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A social and economic history of Peru that reflects the influence of the convents on colonial and post-colonial society.
Author: Mary Gilligan Wong
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like many Catholic girls prior to Vatican II, Mary wanted to be a nun. Ecstatic at her acceptance into a teaching order, she began the period of intense training called "formation," learning the virtues prescribed by a 19th-century, male-dominated Church: humility, self-abnegation, and childlike dependence on the will of her superiors. What happens to a normal 14-year-old girl, giggly and interested in boys, who adores her family yet feels compelled to commit herself to a life that will demand that she never again visit her parents' home? And what leads Mary, "formed" and on mission, to make the decision not to take her final vows? Here, the author invites the reader to enter the world of the young woman who made that journey, to wander the cloistered halls of the convent and experience from the inside the workings of cloistered minds and hearts. Mary Wong interviewed forty former nuns about the experience of convent life, interweaving their stories with hers in a candid, funny, deeply moving account of her training and adventures, and of the beliefs and doubts that persevere.--From publisher description.
Author: Alejandro Yarza
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0748699236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines five highly influential Francoist films produced from 1938 until 1964 and three later films by critically acclaimed directors Luis Buñuel, Guillermo del Toro, and Alex de la Iglesia that attempt to undermine Francoist aesthetics by re-imagining its visual and narrative clichés.
