Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469601618
- 1469601613
- 9780807837542
- 0807837547
- Catholic Church -- United States -- West -- History
- Catholic Church
- Nuns -- United States -- West -- History
- Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- West -- History
- Monastic and religious life of women -- United States -- West -- History
- West (U.S.) -- History
- West (U.S.) -- Church history
- États-Unis (Ouest) -- Histoire
- RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Monastic and religious life of women
- Monasticism and religious orders for women
- Nuns
- West United States
- 271/.90078 23
- BX4220.U6 B88 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nuns for the West -- Travels -- The labor -- The finances -- Contests for control -- A woman for the West: Mother Katharine Drexel -- Ethnic intersections -- Nuns of the West.
Print version record.
Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. 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.
English.
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