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The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900

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The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, & Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 - Magray, Mary Peckham
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Mary Peckham Magray argues that the Irish Catholic cultural revolution in the nineteenth century was effected not only by male elites, as previous scholarship has claimed, but also by the most overlooked and underestimated women in Ireland: the nuns. Once thought to be merely passive servants of the male clerical hierarchy, women's religious orders were in fact at the very center of the creation of a devout Catholic culture in Ireland. This innovative work challenges some of the most widely held assumptions of social ...

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The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, & Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 1998, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195112993

Hardcover