A Dynamic of Hope:
Institutes of Women Religious in Australia
Rosa MacGinley
Traces the origins and trends of women's religious life from earliest monastic times to mid-20th century Australia. The Reformation, French Revolution and Irish Penal Laws combined to send nuns and sisters from French orders to Australia, though often staffed from Irish houses (like pioneers from fewer English and other institutes). The variety of uniquely Australian responses to new conditions presage the diversity of institutes which landed here earlier this century.
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softcover, 440 + viii pages, appendices, map, bibliography, index
ISBN 0 9586713 1 1