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    Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia » Read Now

    by Jo Ann Kay McNamara. 754 pgs.

    SISTERS IN ARMS is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Unfolding century by century, this epic drama encompasses every period from the dawn of Christianity to the present. "An engrossing and challenging work . . . McNamara gives us a history of women's rights--and the...
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    Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns » Read Now

    by Paula Kane Robinson Arai. 233 pgs.

    In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to...
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    The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 » Read Now

    by Mary Peckham Magray. 182 pgs.

    Mary Peckham Magray argues that the Irish Catholic cultural revolution in the nineteenth century was effected not only by male elites, as previous scholarship has claimed, but also by the most overlooked and underestimated women in Ireland: the nuns. Once thought to be merely passive servants of the...
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    Women in the Vanishing Cloister: Organizational Decline in Catholic Religious Orders in the United States » Read Now

    by Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh. 192 pgs.

    Women In The Vanishing Cloister is an organizational decline in Catholic religious orders in the United States. It includes bibliographical references and index.
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    A Life of Quiet Defiance, in Geographical » Read Now

    by Pierre-Yves Ginet. 11 pgs.

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    ...male counterparts, who read and study, the nuns routine is limited to a few daily rituals...territory have been fighting for freedom. Nuns regularly participate in the...
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    The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages, in Theological Studies » Read Now

    by Gary Macy. 27 pgs.

    ...to holy women, that is, virgins, widows, nuns, or canonesses (monacha or sanctimonialis...commissioning of deaconesses, abbesses, and nuns as ordination. In 1018 Pope...
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    A National Survey of the Sexual Trauma Experiences of Catholic Nuns, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now

    by John T. Chibnall, Ann Wolf, Paul N. Duckro. 26 pgs.

    ...SEXUAL TRAUMA EXPERIENCES OF CATHOLIC NUNS * John T. Chibnall Ann...survey of sexual trauma among Catholic nuns. Sexual trauma was not uncommon, both across...exploitation...
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    Noble Daughters: Unheralded Women in Western Christianity, 13th to 18th Centuries (Chap. 4 "The Nuns of Port-Royal: A Reform Movement Entangled in Controversy ") » Read Now

    by Marie A. Conn. 128 pgs.

    The history of Western Christianity, written predominantly from a male perspective, has often ignored women's stories and their unique contributions to both Church and society. Unlike the virgins and martyrs who are named in the official list of the Church's saints, the beguines, Anabaptists...
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    A History of the Popes, 1830-1914 (Discusses nuns in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Owen Chadwick. 616 pgs.

    Could a Pope ever consent to be the subject of a political power? Chadwick presents an analysis of the causes and consequences of the end of the historic Papal State, and the psychological pressures upon old Rome as it came under attack from the Italian Risorgimento; and not only from Italy, but...
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    Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535 » Read Now

    by Eileen Power. 727 pgs.

    ...the bell; behind them a group of four nuns, including the cellaress with her keys...is a procession of priest, acolytes and nuns in the quire. MEDIEVAL ENGLISH...
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    Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750 » Read Now

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela. 204 pgs.

    Spain' attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial...
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    Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy » Read Now

    by Judith C. Brown. 214 pgs.

    The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a...
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