{"product_id":"nuns-without-cloister-sisters-of-st-joseph-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries-paperback-2","title":"Nuns Without Cloister: Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Vacher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePatricia Byrne\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eThe United States Federation of the Sist\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNuns Without Cloister\u003c\/i\u003e 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 régime. 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.\u003cbr\u003eSisters 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, \u003ci\u003eNuns Without Cloister\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a little understood but central dimension in the early modern foundations of contemporary Catholicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarguerite (Sister Thérèse) Vacher, CSJ\u003c\/b\u003e has been involved in research, teaching, and writing on the origins of the Sisters of St. Joseph since 1965 and holds the Doctorat d'Histoire moderne from the Université Lumière Lyon 2. Her publications include the critical edition of Soeurs de Saint-Joseph: Textes primitives (1981) and \u003ci\u003eDes \"régulières\" dans le siècle: Les soeursde Saint-Joseph du P. Médaille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles\u003c\/i\u003e (1991). She resides in Clermont-Ferrand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 460\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45868109856965,"sku":"9780761843429","price":156.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/9pn9ybEy_D9780761843429.webp?v=1781284494","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/nuns-without-cloister-sisters-of-st-joseph-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries-paperback-2","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}