Called to Serve : A History of Nuns in America / Margaret M. McGuinness.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2013]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©[2013]Description: 1 online resource (272 pages): illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814724729
- Frauenorden
- Nonne
- Nuns
- Monasticism and religious orders for women
- Monastic and religious life of women
- RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- Vie religieuse et monastique feminine -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Monachisme et ordres religieux feminins -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Monastic and religious life of women -- United States -- History
- Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- History
- Nuns -- United States -- History
- USA
- United States
- États-Unis -- Histoire religieuse
- United States -- Church history
Organizing to serve -- Service to a growing Catholic community -- Serving through education -- Serving the sick -- Serving those in need -- Praying for the world -- Redefining sisterhood -- Serving today.
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For many Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more visible than priests, Catholic women religious teach at schools, found hospitals, offer food to the poor, and minister to those in need. Their work has shaped the American Catholic Church throughout its history. The author provides the reader with an overview of the history of Catholic women religious in American life, from the colonial period to the twenty-first century.
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