000			03291cam a22003978i 4500
001			ocn981935048
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105043.0
008			170330s2017 quc ob 001 0 eng
040			_aNLC _beng _erda _cNLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dIDEBK _dNT _dYDX _dJSTOR _dEBLCP
015			_a2017901904X _2can
020			_a9780773551725 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
043			_an-us---
045			_ax4x6
050	0	4	_aBX4220 _b.I586 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aTitley, E. Brian, _e1
245	1	0	_aInto silence and servitude : _bhow American girls became nuns, 1945 1965 / _cBrian Titley.
260			_aMontreal ; _aKingston ; _aLondon ; _aChicago : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; _v79
504			_a2
520	0		_a"Much has been written about prominent nuns and the institutions they built, but there is little on the decision to enter a convent or on the training that followed. In Into Silence and Servitude secular historian Brian Titley examines the experiences of young women recruited into Catholic religious sisterhoods during the two decades of convent expansion that followed the Second World War. Overwhelmingly deployed as teachers in the Church's schools, the nuns' wageless labour reduced costs and made Catholic education more affordable. The Church adopted a more active approach to recruitment at this time in order to expand its teaching force of nuns as baby boomers filled its classrooms. Recruitment involved identifying suitable girls in Catholic schools and encouraging them to validate their religious vocations in formation programs behind convent walls. Tactics of persuasion, derived from a growing body of field-tested ideas, were directed at the girls--and at their parents too if they were unsupportive, which many were. Convent formation programs--aspirancy, postulancy, and novitiate--presented recruits with unique challenges. Although expulsions and withdrawals punctuated each formation stage, the total number of nuns nationwide continued to grow until reaching a pinnacle in 1965, just as Catholic schools achieved their highest enrolment. The book concludes with an analysis of the unexpected collapse of the convent system after 1965. Based on extensive archival research, memoirs, oral history, and obscure Church publications, Into Silence and Servitude presents a compelling narrative that opens a window on little known aspects of America's convent system."-- _cProvided by publisher.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aConvents _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aGirls _xReligious life _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1564658&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hBX. _m2017 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c87484 _d87484
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell