Women in the Vanishing Cloister: Organizational Decline in Catholic Religious Orders in the United States
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813518652 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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of Chicago, 1984) continues her studies of American Catholic nuns with this look at their approaching demise. . From Library Journal Sociologist Ebaugh ( Out of the Cloister , Univ. Ebaugh zeros in on the pseudonymous Sisters of Service, representative of most contemporary orders in that as fewer women choose to enter convents, middle-aged members have departed, leaving the sisters with a median age of 70 in 1990. of Texas Pr., 1977, and Becoming an Ex , Univ. Highly recommended for both organizational studies and religious studies collections.- Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati Technical Coll.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Religious life has undergone sweeping changes in the last decades: Most youn
Rather, they have established democratic structures, reduced internal positions in favor of committing resources to empowering the poor, abandoned security in favor of diversity in jobs and missions, minimized conflicts over scarce resources, and exhibited a sense of freedom rather than poor morale. They identified with the feminist movement and in turn influenced it. Ebaugh shows how declining orders have not followed the sociological model of organizational decline, one typically marked by centralized authority, a fear of risk taking, lack of direction, internal conflicts over turf, and low morale. Religious orders for women have existed for fifteen centuries, but their future in this century is bleak. . In 1966, 180,000 women belonged to Catholic orders; by 1986 that number had decreased to 126,000. will not continue for long, non-canonical communities of women and associate programs are growing. Vatican II further encouraged the nuns
A Customer said Good Book. This book is an excellent examination of the decline of catholic religious order from a sociological perspective. I found it very insightful to those working in the creation or maintenance of religious communities.
She is former president of the Association of the Sociology of Religion.. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh is a professor of sociology at the University of Houston