Sister In Crisis Revisted: From Unraveling To Reform & Renewal
Book Review by Jeffrey Miller
Having admired the reporting and coverage by Ann Carey regarding women in religious life in the United States I had been interested in reading her book "Sisters in Crisis", Considering this book was first published in 1997 I had wished for an updated version especially considering recent history. So I was delighted to see "Sisters in Crisis Revisted: From Unraveling to Reform and Renewal" which exactly fulfilled my desire.
There was a lot of information I wanted to see regarding the history of women religious in the United States from mostly the sixties forward. Exactly how did we come to the current situation and exactly who were the people that had a fundamental influence on this is something I am very interested in. As a convert I am always seeking to fill in my lack of knowledge regarding the Church in the United States.
A book of this type can become easily polemical and just come down to "religious habits good", "pant suits bad" along with various stereotypes.
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