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Cuban convents in the age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807 / John J. Clune, Jr.
Author
Clune, John J. (John James)
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Language
English
Published/Created
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2008.
Description
131 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BX4210 .C54 2008
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Monastic and religious life of women
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Cuba
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Havana
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Convents
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Cuba
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Havana
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Havana (Cuba)
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Church history
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Summary note
"Catholicism underwent momentous change as it transitioned to the modern era and the relatively new colonial environments of North America and the Caribbean. Critical to this evolution was the role of women in religion." "John J. Clune Jr. examines the impact of the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment on the lives of nuns in colonial Cuba and New Orleans, both crucial centers of Catholicism where women had significant influence. Only recently have scholars begun to give attention to the importance of female religious life in the Spanish Empire." "Clune illustrates the changing attitudes regarding convents in the eighteenth century by contrasting the Clares, Dominicans, and Carmelites of Havana with the Ursulines of New Orleans (and later of Cuba). Built upon research in the archives of Spain, Cuba, Louisiana, and Texas, Clune acknowleges the importance of female religious life in the Spanish Empire and demonstrates that the decline in prestige of female religious orders in Latin America began not with Vatican II in the mid-twentieth century but with enlightened reform during the reigns of Spanish kings Charles III and Charles IV."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-125) and index.
Contents
Convent reform and the Cuban context
Private lives in common spaces : Santa Clara, 1671-1769
A respite from common-life reforms : Santa Clara, 1770-1782
Common-life reform : Santa Clara, 1782-1783
Orthodox convent reform and progressive social measures : 1784-1796
Transforming the role of convents in Havana : 1796-1807.
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ISBN
9780813032177 ((alk. paper))
0813032172 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2007032165
OCLC
164802514
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