Voices from the Catholic Worker - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1566390583 ISBN 13: 9781566390583

Casa editrice: Temple Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

This rich oral history weaves a tapestry of memories and experience from interviews, round table discussions, personal memoirs, and thorough research. In the sixtieth anniversary year of the Catholic Worker, Rosalie Riegle Troester reconfirms the diversity and commitment of a movement that applies basic Christianity to social problems. Founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, the Catholic Worker has continued to apply the principles of voluntary poverty and nonviolence to changing social and political realities. Over 200 interviews with Workers from all over the United States reveal how people came to this movement, how they were changed by it, and how they faced contradictions between the Catholic Worker philosophy and the call of contemporary life. Vivid memoirs of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and Ammon Hennacy are interwoven with accounts of involvement with labor unions, war resistance, and life on Catholic Worker farms. The author also addresses the Worker's relationship with the Catholic Church and with the movement's wrenching debates over abortion, homosexuality, and the role of women. It includes an author note: Rosalie Riegle Troester is Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Temple Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1566390583
• ISBN 13: 9781566390583
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1
• Redattore: Troester Rosalie Riegle