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Author Magray, Mary Peckham.

Title The transforming power of the nuns : women, religion, and cultural change in Ireland, 1750-1900 / Mary Peckham Magray.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index.
Contents One: Women Religious and the Devotional Revolution; Two: Founding Women; Three: Convents, Class, and Catholic Identity; Four: Intimate Boundaries; Five: Cultural Authority; Six: Transforming Catholic Culture; Seven: Bishops, Priests, and Nuns; Eight: Conclusion; Appendix; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Challenging widely-held assumptions of 19th-century social history in Ireland, this book examines the influence of Irish nuns on the Irish Catholic cultural revolution. It claims they were not merely passive servants, but educated women at the centre of the creation of a devout Catholic culture.
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Subject Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
Ireland.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Ireland -- Church history -- 18th century.
Church history.
Ireland -- Church history -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Magray, Mary Peckham. Transforming power of the nuns. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195112997 (DLC) 97008446 (OCoLC)36648532
ISBN 0585160767 (electronic book)
9780585160764 (electronic book)
1602561842
9781602561847
1280453753
9781280453755
0195112997 (alkaline paper)
9780195112993

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