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The Transforming Power of the Nuns : Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 by Mary Peckham Magray; NetLibrary, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Mary Peckham Magray argues that the Irish Catholic cultural revolution in the nineteenth century was effected not only by male elites, as previous scholarship has claimed, but also by the most overlooked and underestimated women in Ireland: the nuns. Once thought to be merely passive servants of the male clerical hierarchy, women's religious orders were in fact at the very center of the creation of a devout Catholic culture in Ireland. Often well-educated, articulate, and evangelical, nuns were

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Author

Mary Peckham Magray; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195354522

Category

history

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Christian

Updated

2026-03-24