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Daughters Of Charity: Catholic Women And Their Communities In Antebellum America, Linda Merritt Mccubbins
Daughters Of Charity: Catholic Women And Their Communities In Antebellum America, Linda Merritt Mccubbins
Institute for the Humanities Theses
This study calls into question common assumptions about the limited public role of Catholic women during the antebellum period of American history. To understand the roles Protestant women played during this era, it is important to understand Catholic women's roles. Through primary and secondary source documents, the similarities and differences relating to church structure and theology will be documented. The study will also examine reasons why Protestant women converted to Catholicism during a profoundly anti-Catholic era.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, women, both Catholic and Protestant, played an increasingly public role through organized benevolence and other activities. …
The Oneida Community: Its Apologists And Its Critics, Nancy C. Morris
The Oneida Community: Its Apologists And Its Critics, Nancy C. Morris
Institute for the Humanities Theses
This thesis examines the historical literature regarding the Oneida Community (1848-81) from the society's conceptual beginnings in the 1830s to the present time. After an overview of the antebellum communitarian movement in the United States, a detailed description of the Oneida Community, one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century utopian experiments, is presented.
Chapters III, IV, and V survey the body of literature pertinent to the Oneida Community and its founder and spiritual leader, John Humphrey Noyes, over the last 145 years. The writings of the Oneida apologists, a majority of whom were Oneida Community family members and their descendants, are …