Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age : Britain, 1945-90 /
"This book investigates the experiences of women religious in Britain from 1945 to 1990, identifying how communities and individual lives were influenced by both religious and secular social movements. Drawing on interviews with eighty women at nine different institutions, it examines youth cul...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.