Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age : Britain, 1945-90 /
This is first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It places Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the turbulent 1960s and integrates their story of social change into a larger British and international one, thus displaying how religious bodies engaged in modernisation. It addresses...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Gender in history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Before the Council: post-war modernity and religious vocations
- 3. The modern girl and religious life
- 4. Governance, authority and '1968'
- 5. Relationships, generation discourse and the 'turn to self'
- 6. The world in the cloister and the nun in the world
- 7. Local and global: changing ministries
- 8. Becoming a woman
- 9. Conclusion
- Index.