Description:
This book delves into over one hundred years of history of the Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM) / Our Lady of the Missions as they moved from ultramontanism to eco-spirituality and a focus on women and social justice.
Brief description:
Rosa Bruno-Jofré is a professor in the Faculty of Education cross-appointed to the Department of History at Queen's University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Review Quotes:
"This well-written and researched institutional history presents a solid academic view of a woman religious teaching community from its nineteenth century conservative roots to its renewal since the Second Vatican Council."
--M.C. Havey, Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 33, No. 1" The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions is a landmark work that captures the complexity of the transnational and transtemporal development of an educational institution between 1898 and 2008."
--Maria Patricia Williams, ICHRE, UCL Institute of Education, Paedagogica Historica"This study is a well-written account of the history of a religious congregation that deserves its recognized place in Canadian religious, education, women's, and social history. Rosa Bruno-Jofré traces the educational ministry of the community, placing the story within the larger contexts of events taking place in Canada, the world, and the Catholic Church; and the result is a fine study of how a religious community has ministered in central and western Canada since 1898."
--Margaret McGuinness, Department of Religion and Theology, La Salle University"This is an excellent of the work of the Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM) / Our Lady of the Missions, in Canada, from 1898 until 2008. It is an outstanding contribution to the growing corpus of work on female religious around the world. All through, readers are engaged in a most engaging account of the work on the congregation. This reaches the level of fascination in the exposition on its embracement in recent years of eco-spirituality, the celebration of what it is to be a woman, and social justice."
--Professor Tom O'Donoghue, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia"With her robust combination of theory, archival research, and oral interviews, Bruno-Jofre has made a major contribution not only to the history of women religious, but to the histories of Prairie education, Catholicism, and feminism. Her integration of the often separated areas of education, religion, immigration, and gender is a model for scholars in any of these fields."
--Heidi E. MacDonald, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of New Brunswick