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Unruly Catholic nuns : sisters' stories / edited by Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the Catholic Church.
- Nuns--Biography.
- Nuns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions, 2017.
- Summary:
- Unruly Catholic Nuns explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns and, by doing so, contributes to the global conversation about the role of women in the Catholic Church today. Through autobiography, fiction, poetry, and prose, Sisters and former nuns write about their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church. Through their stories we learn how these women act out their missions of social justice, challenge cultural and governmental policies, and attempt to reconcile their unruliness with their religious orders and the strictures of the church hierarchy. At a time when questions of gender, religion, race, and sexuality are provoking intense debate within Catholicism and other Christian traditions, and when religion is frequently invoked in political rhetoric, these stories provide a vital corrective to our contemporary understanding of the role of women and nuns in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments and Permissions
- Introduction
- Our Father Wills
- The Nun Speaks to Her Church
- God Shoes
- She, with the Alabaster Jar
- The Chancery
- No One Has Hired Us
- Pain Cries to a Patriarchal Church
- Our Mother Works
- Sister Dorothy Stang, Assassinated
- Unruly Women: Nuns Out of Order
- Journey to Unruliness
- The Renunciation
- Polishing the Brass
- Timing
- I Am a Catholic Nun
- Faith in the Wasteland
- & The Truth Shall Set U Free
- Sisters behind Walls
- Rose Hawthorne Creates
- When Grief Opens the Doors to the Sacred
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438466491
- 1438466498
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