Title: Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites : identity, ethnicity, and tradition in the modern church /
Authors: Caterine, Darryl V.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles History; Conservatism Religious aspects Catholic Church History; Hispanic American Catholics Religious life History
Abstract: "In Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites, Darryl V. Caterine explores the historical transformation after Vatican II of one community of Carmelite sisters into a neotraditionalist order defending an essentialist understanding of Catholic teaching and spearheading a movement among women religious to define the parameters of normative Catholicism. The story of this order suggests that the fundamental disagreement between "conservative" and "liberal" Catholics may lie in a dispute about looking to Anglo-Protestant culture for a theological and ecclesiological model for the church."--Jacket.
Contents: The emergence of a neotraditionalist order -- Mother Luisa's canonization and the sanctification of neotraditionalism -- The urban cloister : religious and ethnic identity in Los Angeles -- Underground Carmelites : Catholic identity in the Arizona/Sonora borderlands -- Betwixt and between : Catholic identity and the reconstruction of ethnic identity in Miami -- Gone but not forgotten : the Carmelites in postindustrial Cleveland.