Unveiled
Subtitle: the hidden lives of Nuns
By: Cheryl L. Reed
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780425195116
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women; Nuns; Monastic and religious life of women
Description: When reporter Cheryl Reed set out to examine the lives of nuns, she was determined to find out what was behind the enigmatic image reinforced by Hollywood clichés, misguided speculation, and her Catholic friends' childhood stories of unyielding figures in black. For this book, she interviewed more than 300 nuns of diverse beliefs, lifestyles, and orders. She lived and prayed with them, witnessed their vows, mourned and celebrated with them, and asked questions no one ever dared before: about love and sex, life and death, faith and joy, and loss and regret. Reed learned more about motherhood, relationships, faith, and feminism than she ever gleaned from the outside world.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Life before the nuns; title: Community. Beyond stereotype ; Sisters in the 'hood; title: Obedience. Politics of the habit ; Sisters with attitude ; The elastic cloister; title: Chastity. The sensual sisters ; A divine intimacy; title: Poverty. The last of the Monjitas ; Teaching on the Rez ; Among the down and out in L.A.; title: Spirituality. Spiritual protests ; The mystic mother superior ; Finding the future, seeing the past; title: Epilogue: Life after the nuns.