Habits of Change

An Oral History of American Nuns

Carole Garibaldi Rogers

OUP USA Oxford Oral History Series

352 pages | 12 halftones | 235x156mm

978-0-19-975706-0 | Paperback | 16 June 2011

Price: £17.99

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Presents the only collection of oral histories of American nuns from a range of different communities and ethnic backgrounds
Offers rare perspectives and insights into events in American and Catholic Church history since the mid-twentieth century
Interviewees include a Maryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, an inner-city art teacher, a recovering alcoholic, a hospital administrator, and an advocate for the gay and lesbian community who has been disciplined by the Vatican
The early 1990s interviews from the first edition are interfaced with 2010 updating interviews with the same women, offering an opportunity to make historical comparisons
Includes a new prologue and epilogue that contextualize the oral histories that form the body of the book

A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s—perhaps more so than any other group of contemporary women. Here these women speak of their active engagement in the events that disrupted their church and society and of the lives they lead today, offering their unique perspective on issues such as peace activism, global equality for women, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The interviewees include a Maryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, most recently in the Congo; an inner-city art teacher whose own paintings reflect the vibrancy of Haiti; a recovering alcoholic who at age 71 has embarked on her fourth ministry; a life-long nurse, educator, and hospital administrator; and an outspoken advocate for the gay and lesbian community. Told with simplicity, honesty, and passion, their stories deserve to be heard.

Readership: Students and scholars of American Christianity, religion and women, and gender studies

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