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9780415500814 | Routledge India, January 26, 2012, cover price $120.00

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9781138662391 | Routledge India, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95

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Product Description: The sudden revelation of a powerful religious calling was an entirely unexpected event in the life of a college student named Lauren. But when it became clear to her that she had a spiritual vocation, she made the exceptional decision to dedicate her life to God...read more

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9781452119403 | Chronicle Books Llc, September 29, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The sudden revelation of a powerful religious calling was an entirely unexpected event in the life of a college student named Lauren.
9780442002275, titled "The Behavior-Based Safety Process: Managing Involvement for an Injury-Free Culture" | Van Nostrand Reinhold, October 1, 1990, cover price $79.95 | also contains The Behavior-Based Safety Process: Managing Involvement for an Injury-Free Culture | About this edition: Will be shipped from US.

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Product Description: Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present. Uncovering hidden histories, this book focuses on Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present. Today, South Korea’s Buddhist nuns have a thriving monastic community under their own control, and they are well known as meditation teachers and social service providers...read more
By Eun-Su Cho (editor)

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9781438435114 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $70.00

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9781438435107 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present.

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Product Description: When it appeared in 1989, Untold Sisters was the first general introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States. Since then, much has been learned about the links among women of differing cultures, orders, and convents, their networks and support systems, their conflicts and rivalries...read more
By Electa Arenal (editor), Amanda Powell (trans) and Stacey Schlau (editor)

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9780826347381 | Revised edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 30, 2010), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When it appeared in 1989, Untold Sisters was the first general introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States.

Examines the Catholic priesthood throughout history to reveal a culture of privilege and sexual permissiveness that enforces submission among the sisterhood and male clergy while enabling priests to commit the very acts they appear to condemn.

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9781400050550 | 1st edition (Harmony Books, March 1, 2004), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Examines the Catholic priesthood throughout history to reveal a culture of privilege and sexual permissiveness that enforces submission among the sisterhood and male clergy while enabling priests to commit the very acts they appear to condemn.

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9781400050567 | Reprint edition (Harmony Books, March 8, 2005), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A devoted Catholic nun and church reformation activist examines the Catholic priesthood throughout history to reveal a culture of privilege and sexual permissiveness that enforces submission among the sisterhood and male clergy while enabling priests to commit the very acts they appear to condemn.

Miscellaneous:

9780307545985 | Crown Pub, June 9, 2010, cover price $13.00

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9781594711985, titled "The Foundations of Religious Life: Revisiting the Vision" | Ave Maria Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The desert will show you what you are and are not made of, what you do and do not need. 'Rachel SrubasChristians are familiar with Matthew's account of Jesus ' temptation in the desert. We are familiar with Jesus ' pithy responses to the devil at the end of those forty days: One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God; Do not put the Lord your God to the test; Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him...read more

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9780814630952 | Liturgical Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The desert will show you what you are and are not made of, what you do and do not need.

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Product Description: In an easy, conversational style, the author, a nun for over forty years, gives readers the facts and fictions of the monastic life: how the choice is made; what lies behind the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; the nuts and bolts of monastic calling; what monks and nuns do all day; how they support themselves; and why they live as they do...read more

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9780819223159 | Morehouse Pub Co, October 1, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In an easy, conversational style, the author, a nun for over forty years, gives readers the facts and fictions of the monastic life: how the choice is made; what lies behind the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; the nuts and bolts of monastic calling; what monks and nuns do all day; how they support themselves; and why they live as they do.

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Product Description: Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that provides historical and cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives, their sources and their authors...read more

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9780754606758 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 1, 2007, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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By Benedict Groeschel and Grazyna Marczuk (photographer)

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9781586171148 | Ignatius Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light on the work of these women's religious communities. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and dismissive of the major advances in the care of the sick as a serious and skilled activity, an activity that originated in seventeenth-century France with Vincent de Paul's Daughters of Charity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780812217834 | 1 edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 22, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations.

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By Frans Blom (introduced by), Jos Blom (introduced by), Clare and Anne Lake Prescott (editor)

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9780754604440 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $149.95

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Product Description: Sisters: An Inside Look is the story of one Roman Catholic sister living out her call to the consecrated religious life. Sr. Kathleen Rooney reflects on her ministerial journey in the light of the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience that she made upon entering her community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780884897101 | St Marys Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: Sisters: An Inside Look is the story of one Roman Catholic sister living out her call to the consecrated religious life.

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Product Description: Can life really be "merry" inside a Poor Clare cloister? This happy book reveals the challenges, cares and joys of that cloistered life from an "insiders" view. The poet's cry, "O world, I cannot hold you close enough!" is the heart's cry of the enclosed contemplative...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780898708240, titled "A Right to Be Merry" | Ignatius Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Can life really be "merry" inside a Poor Clare cloister?
9780819905062 | Reprint edition (Franciscan Pr, May 1, 1973), cover price $6.50

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Product Description: In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light on the work of these women's religious communities. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and dismissive of the major advances in the care of the sick as a serious and skilled activity, an activity that originated in seventeenth-century France with Vincent de Paul's Daughters of Charity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780812236149 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 30, 2001, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations.

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Product Description: This text tells the story, not only of the Benedictine sisters, but also of all women who stand outside the range of the contemporary imagination. The women featured are from six Benedictine communities - from all generations, cultures and social classes - who share their experiences and struggles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780268007034 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: This text tells the story, not only of the Benedictine sisters, but also of all women who stand outside the range of the contemporary imagination.

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Product Description: An examination of the story of Angelina and the religious movement associated with her from within the Franciscan tradition, the author reads the source texts with a hermeneutic of suspicion and retrieval. The result provides a greatly expanded and revised perspective on the historical significance of Angelina as a Franciscan tertiary and Italian Beguine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781576591314 | Franciscan Inst Pubs, October 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An examination of the story of Angelina and the religious movement associated with her from within the Franciscan tradition, the author reads the source texts with a hermeneutic of suspicion and retrieval.

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Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780471287582 | 2 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 22, 1996), cover price $199.00
9780442022471 | 2nd edition (Van Nostrand Reinhold, October 1, 1996), cover price $79.95 | also contains The European Union Illuminated: Its Nature, Importance and Future
9780442002275 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, October 1, 1990, cover price $79.95 | also contains Radical Love | About this edition: Will be shipped from US.

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