Across God's Frontiers : Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 /

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Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Butler, Anne M., 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church > United States > West > History.
Nuns.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
Monastic and religious life of women.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Monastic and religious life of women > United States > West > History.
Monasticism and religious orders for women > United States > West > History.
Nuns > United States > West > History.
West United States.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire.
West (U.S.) > Church history.
West (U.S.) > History.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (448 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469601618

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