Unconventional Women
Author: Marie Therese Gass
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780965181655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marie Therese Gass
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780965181655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia O'Donnell-Gibson
Publisher: Self Publisher
Published: 2011-07-29
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780983611202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Impressionistic and dreamy, a nine-year-old girl immediately feels that she might be called by God when a Catholic missionary speaks to her third grade class at a Catholic school. The idea of this calling embeds itself into her, haunting her through elementary and high school, after which she chooses to enter the convent. Her story follows the five years she spent as an Adrian Dominican nun struggling to balance her desire for a secular life with her great fear of turning her back on God's call. Her stories are sad as well as joyous, inspiring as well as unsettling.
Author: Joseph A. Kotarba
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987-07-28
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0226451410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Existential Self in Society explores the ways in which we experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social world. Kotarba and Fontana have gathered eleven original essays that form an exciting contribution and an ideal introduction to the emerging field of existential sociology.
Author: Gerelyn Hollingsworth
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lucinda SanGiovanni
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a sociological inquiry into the nature of an emergent role passage. The book's focus is on 30,000 Roman Catholic nuns who left their convents to secular roles and lifestyles. It is the first work to consider systematically the substantive and theoretical dimensions of this type of role passage. In doing so it raises important questions about the salience of religious life in modern society, the transformation of women's position in social life, and the dynamics of role change in adulthood.
Author: Nancy Manahan
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935226635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The new edition includes a new foreword that looks at the impact the original edition had on both the lesbian and the mainstream cultures. The authors have added individual afterwords, describing how their lives were changed when their book went mainstream.
Author: A. G. Dickens
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1982-07-01
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 082642449X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Silvia Evangelisti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0199532052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Silvia Evangelisti presents the story of the women who have lived in religious communities, from the dawn of the modern age onwards - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society aroundthem.
Author: Annelies van Heijst
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9047442709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Dutch case study examines, historically and ethically, Catholic charity in the 19th and 20th centuries. The nuns embodied a spiritual model of devotion, and theorists offered theoretical models for interpretation; but how to integrate the perspective of care leavers?
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.