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Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative
among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after
the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the
first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious
women in the secular society of mid-seventeenth century France and
quietly broke the ecclesiastical and cultural barriers that opposed
it. This book opens perspectives on the sisters' success through a
politics of discretion and the introduction of creative variety in
their lives in country parishes or in the urban orphanages,
hospitals, and reformatories for fallen women of the ancien regime.
Vacher's methodology, comparing the congregation's theoretical,
prescriptive documents with evidence about the actual life of these
communities in southern France, leads to the question of whether
and to what degree succeeding generations grasped the original
inspiration. Sisters of St. Joseph preceding the French Revolution
established a paradigm for the active, apostolic women's
congregations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that
supplied the workforce behind Catholic schools, colleges,
hospitals, and orphanages in the United States, Canada, and
elsewhere. In researching them, Nuns Without Cloister addresses a
little understood but central dimension in the early modern
foundations of contemporary Catholicism.
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