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Ordinary Saints Bonnie Morgan

Ordinary Saints By Bonnie Morgan

Ordinary Saints by Bonnie Morgan


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An engaging study of rural women and lived religion that explores the ties between gender, labour, and Christian belief.

Ordinary Saints Summary

Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland: Volume 2 by Bonnie Morgan

From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as labourers within the family economy. Women's work in the region included outdoor agricultural labour, housekeeping, childbirth, mortuary services, food preparation, caring for the sick, and textile production. Ordinary Saints explores how religious belief shaped the meaning of this work, and how women lived their Christian faith through the work they did. In lived religious practices at home, in church-based voluntary associations, and in the wider community, the Anglican women of Conception Bay constructed a female theological culture characterized by mutuality, negotiation of gender roles, and resistance to male authority, combining feminist consciousness with Christian commitment. Bonnie Morgan brings together evidence from oral interviews, denominational publications, census data, minute books of the Church of England Women's Association, headstone epitaphs, and household art and objects to demonstrate the profound ties between labour and faithfulness: for these rural women, work not only expressed but also shaped belief. Ordinary Saints, with its focus on gender, labour, and lived faithfulness, breaks new ground in the history of religion in Canada.

Ordinary Saints Reviews

A lively and compelling microhistory, Ordinary Saints develops real depth in the examination of women's lived religion in mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay and is a model for future studies. Heidi MacDonald, University of New Brunswick Saint John and co-author of Vatican II and Beyond: The Changing Mission and Identity of Canadian Women Religious
Ordinary Saints is an important, original work. Hannah Lane, Mount Allison University

About Bonnie Morgan

Bonnie Morgan holds a PhD in history from the University of New Brunswick and is the Newfoundland and Labrador Collections librarian with Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries.

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NLS9780773558915
9780773558915
0773558918
Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland: Volume 2 by Bonnie Morgan
New
Paperback
McGill-Queen's University Press
2019-12-19
360
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