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Article: Men helping women: a monastic case study.
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
- Author:
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In October 1964, thirteen women arrived in the Midwest and settled into a large home refurbished for their needs. They were Jeromite nuns, foundresses of St. Mary's, the second Jeromite community for women in the United States. While the new foundation had been initiated by Meriden, home community of the thirteen nuns, the sponsorship and sustained assistance of St. John's, a community of Jeromite monks, was essential to the founding. Men helping women to establish a new community is a common event in monastic history, so common as to be taken for granted as "normal." Such help is the norm because a combination of monastic and social structures governing education and work ...