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Author McGuinness, Margaret M.

Title Neighbors and missionaries : a history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine / Margaret M. McGuinness
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 230 pages)
Contents Introduction -- 1. From Wellesley College to the Lower East Side -- 2. Fighting to Save the City of New York -- 3. Neighbors and Teachers -- 4. Settlements Go South -- 5. More than Settlement Houses -- 6. Changes and Continuities -- Epilogue
Summary This text examines a distinctive community of religious women whose primary focus was neither a teaching nor nursing/hospital administration. The Sisters of Christian Doctrine choose to live among the poor and to serve where other communities were either unwilling or unable
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (U.S.) -- History
Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (U.S.)
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011032068
ISBN 9780823239917
0823239918
9780823266234
0823266230
0823249433
9780823249435