Dedicated to God
Subtitle: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199947935
Subjects: Nuns; Monastic and religious life of women; Christianity; Women, united states
Description: As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois.