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Across God's Frontiers - Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 (Paperback)
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Across God's Frontiers - Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 (Paperback)
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Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as
providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In
Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. 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. As nuns and sisters adjusted to new circumstances
and immersed themselves in rugged environments, Butler argues, the
West shaped them; and through their labors and charities, the
sisters in turn shaped the West. These female religious pioneers
built institutions, brokered relationships between Indigenous
peoples and encroaching settlers, and undertook varied occupations,
often without organized funding or direct support from the church
hierarchy. A comprehensive history of Roman Catholic nuns and
sisters in the American West, Across God's Frontiers reveals
Catholic sisters as dynamic and creative architects of civic and
religious institutions in western communities.
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