Publication

2017-07-01 - Otago University Press

Language

English

Word Count

82,000 words, Guess

Page Count

328 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100947522425
  • ISBN-139780947522421
  • OCLC Control Number959952758
  • Better World Books9780947522421
  • Open LibraryOL27408665M

Classifications

  • LCCBX4337.Z5 N45 2017
  • LCCBX4337.Z5N45 2017

Description

The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, and eventually reaching as far north as Auckland. For most of their first century in New Zealand the Dominican sisters were teaching nuns, living in large enclosed convents cut off from the outside world. In the mid-1960s the Second Vatican Council ushered in a period of radical change. The sisters moved out of their convents and into small homes in their local neighbourhoods; out of their schools and into new roles in education, social justice, pastoral care and spirituality. Today they are an aging congregation that is diminishing in size. Susannah Grant was given full access to the congregation's rich archives in order to write this book, from the point of view of an 'outsider'.

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