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As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reese, Abbie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Oxford oral history series.
Temas:
Corpus Christi Monastery (Rockford, Ill.)
Monastic and religious life of women > Illinois > Rockford.
Colettines.
Colettines > Biography.
Oral history > Illinois > Rockford.
Oral biography.
Vie religieuse et monastique féminine > Illinois > Rockford.
Histoire orale > Illinois > Rockford.
Biographies orales.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Monastic and religious life of women
Oral biography
Oral history
Illinois > Rockford
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Abbie Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois. Seldom leaving their 25,000-square-foot gated enclosure, members of this community embrace an extreme version of poverty a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199947942
0199947945

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