Description
Book SynopsisThis volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Familypriests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay peopleand integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contributions to the making of the modern United States by exploring parish ministry, preaching, health care, education, social and economic justice, liturgical renewal and the arts, missionary outreach and contemplative prayer, ongoing internal formation and renewal, and models of sanctity. It charts the effects of the United States on Dominican life as well as the Dominican contribution to the larger U.S. history. When the country was engulfed by wave after wave of immigrants and cities experienced unchecked growth, Dominicans provided educational institutions; community, social, and religious centers; and health care and social services. When epidemic disease hit various locales, Dominicans respond
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dominicans on Mission
Jeffrey M. Burns | 1
Dominicans in the World
A Joyful Spectrum of Service: The Order of Preachers in New York
James T. Carroll | 15
“In the Midst of Sorrow and Death”: The Work of the
Dominican Sisters in Tennessee during the Yellow Fever Epidemics
Margaret M. McGuinness | 43
Reclaiming the Sinsinawa Dominicans’ Legacy of Catholic Progressive Education
Ellen Skerrett and Janet Welsh, OP | 65
Walking in Solidarity: Dominican Women and the Struggle
for Economic Justice in the Modern United States
Heath W. Carter | 99
A Corporate Stance for Social Justice: The Dominican Sisters
of San Rafael, California, and the 1980s Sanctuary Movement
Cynthia Taylor | 130
Aggiornamento on Campus: William Blase Schauer, OP, and
the Las Cruces Experiment
Christopher J. Renz, OP | 157
Being Dominican
Call and Response: American Dominican Artists and Vatican II
Elizabeth Michael Boyle, OP | 191
Afire with the Itinerant Spirit: Paradigm Shifts in the Foreign Missions
Donna Maria Moses, OP | 215
Dominican Monasteries: Ever Ancient, Ever New
Cecilia Murray, OP | 242
More Than a Mustard Seed: The Parable Conference for
Dominican Life and Mission
Diane Kennedy, OP | 269
From Teacher to Tutor: Adapting a Historic Ministry of
Education to Contemporary Realities
Arlene I. Bachanov | 294
Samuel Mazzuchelli, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and the Making of American Saints
Kathleen Sprows Cummings | 316
List of Contributors | 345
Index | 347
