The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

Mary Peckham Magray argues that the Irish Catholic cultural revolution in the nineteenth century was spearheaded not by male elites, as previous scholarship has claimed, but rather 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 history in nineteenth-century Ireland.Read More

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  • 0195112997
  • 9780195112993
  • Mary Peckham Magray
  • 23 July 1998
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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