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Into Silence and Servitude, Volume 2 - How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
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Into Silence and Servitude, Volume 2 - How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
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For many American Catholics in the twentieth-century the face of
the Church was a woman's face. After the Second World War, as
increasing numbers of baby boomers flooded Catholic classrooms, the
Church actively recruited tens of thousands of young women as
teaching sisters. In Into Silence and Servitude Brian Titley delves
into the experiences of young women who entered Catholic religious
sisterhoods at this time. The Church favoured nuns as teachers
because their wageless labour made education more affordable in
what was the world's largest private school system. Focusing on the
Church's recruitment methods Titley examines the idea of a
religious vocation, the school settings in which nuns were
recruited, and the tactics of persuasion directed at both suitable
girls and their parents. The author describes how young women
entered religious life and how they negotiated the sequence of
convent "formation stages," each with unique challenges respecting
decorum, autonomy, personal relations, work, and study. Although
expulsions and withdrawals punctuated each formation stage, the
number of nuns nationwide continued to grow until it reached a
pinnacle in 1965, the same year that Catholic schools achieved
their highest enrolment. Based on extensive archival research,
memoirs, oral history, and rare Church publications, Into Silence
and Servitude presents a compelling narrative that opens a window
on little-known aspects of America's convent system.
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