Refocusing the Vision: Religious Life into the Future

Fiand, Barbara

ISBN 10: 082451890X / ISBN 13: 9780824518905

Published by PublishDrive, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refocusing the Vision: Religious Life into the Future
• Publisher: PublishDrive
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082451890X
• ISBN 13: 9780824518905
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Refocusing the Vision is the revised and greatly expanded version of Barbara Fiand's best-selling book, Living the Vision. Fiand revisits this earlier work with the eyes and experience of ten years. In Living the Vision, Barbara Fiand mapped an agenda for nuns living with the reforms set forth by the Second Vatican Council. These reforms included relaxing the rules regarding dress and living arrangements. Today many nuns live in apartment-style convents and dress in secular clothing. In addition, many nuns have eschewed traditional roles such as teaching and missionary work in favor of more fulfilling careers in social action and spirituality. Many nuns today even run parishes where no priest is available. In this new edition the reader will find three added Appendices, but by far the most revision and expansion will be found in chapter 4. The questions raised there are provocative and may be disturbing to some.

About the Author

Fiand is Research Professor of Spirituality in honor of the late Sister Irene Dugan, r.c., at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University, Chicago. She lectures throughout the country and abroad on issues related to holistic spirituality, prayer, religious life, feminine spirituality, and mid-life psychology and spirituality.