Where are the women in liturgical history? In considering the influential liturgical movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, Katharine E. Harmon reveals that the reality is analogous to Matthew's account of the crucifixion of Jesus: "there were also many women there" (Matt. 27:55).
In this groundbreaking study, Harmon considers women's involvement in the movement. Here, readers explore the contributions of Maisie Ward, Dorothy Day, Catherine deHueck Doherty, Ade Bethune, Therese Mueller, and many others. Harmon shows how movements and institutions such as progressivism, Catholic women's organizations, Catholic Action, the American Grail Movement, and daily Catholic family life played a prominent role in the liturgical renewal. The historical record is clear that women were there, they ministered to the Mystical Body, and their important work must be recognized.
Recenzijos
Harmons book is a magnificent and much-needed addition to our growing knowledge of women as subjects of liturgys past, not only as worshipers but also as creative agents of liturgical renewal in their own right. Building on sustained archival research, Harmon is able to bring to light much-needed information about the leading women in the liturgical movement in North America. I highly recommend this book.Teresa Berger, Yale Institute of Sacred Music & Yale Divinity School Katharine Harmon has given us an impressively researched book that allows us to look deeply into the lives of a host of forward-thinking women whose vision for renewed social order drew its inspiration from the liturgy. These women make plain that what happened fifty years ago at Vatican II was no mere liturgical fad but decades in the making. What has liturgy to do with life? Everythingand Harmons work demonstrates the significant contribution that these courageous women made to understanding that.Michael Woods, SJ, Gregorian University, Author of Cultivating Soil and Soul: Twentieth-Century Catholic Agrarians Embrace the Liturgical Movement Katharine Harmon has done a marvelous job of inserting women into the heart of our recounting of the history of the liturgical movement, . . . This is an impressive and engaging work of scholarship. The narrative flows easily; material that could have proven tedious and dense is not. Scholars of history, Catholic studies, women's studies, and liturgical studies would be interested.
Laura Swan, OSB, St. Placid Monastery, Lacey, Washington, Magistra
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Foreword |
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Preface |
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Chapter 1 The Need for a Liturgical Movement: Beginnings in Europe, Preparations for America (c. 1870-1926) |
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Women and Liturgy in the European Liturgical Movement |
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Aemiliana Lohr, OSB, Liturgical Theologian |
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27 | (6) |
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The European Grail Movement |
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Chapter 2 The Burgeoning American Liturgical Movement: The Catholic Response to the Modern World (c. 1926-38) |
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Justine Bayard Ward and the Reform of Liturgical Music |
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Angel of the Strikers, Herald of the Liturgy: Ellen Gates Starr |
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Catechists, Writers, and Students, Women in Orate Fratres Commenting on the Liturgy |
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Women in the Pews, Women in Women's Organizations |
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Chapter 3 The Lay Apostolate Enters the Liturgical Movement: Catholic Intellectual Life, Social Regeneration, and Lay Initiative (c. 1930-40) |
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Maisie Ward: Theologian, Preacher, Publisher |
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Sara B. O'Neill of St. Benet's Library and Bookshop of Chicago |
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Nina Polcyn Moore and the Next Generation of Liturgical Advocates |
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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement |
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Evaluating the Integration of Social Regeneration and the Liturgical Movement |
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Catherine de Hueck Doherty, the Liturgy, and the Interracial Movement |
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Chapter 4 Joining Liturgy and Life: The Liturgical Movement in Labor, the Arts, and Lifestyles (c. 1933-45) |
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Work, Prayer, Art, and Ade Bethune |
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The American Grail Movement |
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Chapter 5 Cooking for Christ in the Liturgical Kitchen: Liturgy, the Home, and the Liturgical Apostolate (c. 1945-59) |
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Social Context for American Catholic Home Life |
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A Discovery for Orate Fratres: Therese Mueller and the Family Life in Christ |
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Correct, Cheerful, and Charming: Mary Perkins Ryan |
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Cooking for Christ in the Liturgical Kitchen: Florence Berger |
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Promoting the Liturgical Family Life |
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Conclusion: Lay Women and the Future of the Liturgical Apostolate |
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Learning to Love the Liturgy |
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332 | (6) |
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Conclusion: Unfinished and Unbegun |
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338 | (3) |
Bibliography |
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Index of Names |
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361 | (4) |
Subject Index |
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Katharine E. Harmon is a pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian currently serving as Project Director, Obsculta Preaching Initiative, School of Theology and Seminary, Saint Johns University in Collegeville, Minnesota. A graduate of the University of Notre Dames liturgical studies program, Harmon has contributed both scholarly and pastoral pieces on topics of liturgical renewal and American Catholic faith and practice, including There Were Also Many Women There: Roman Catholic Lay Women in the American Liturgical Movement, 1926-1959 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2012). Nathan D. Mitchell, PhD, (1943-2024), was Associate Director for Research at the Center for Pastoral Liturgy, University of Notre Dame. Six times a year, he wrote "The Amen Corner" for Worship. In 1998, the North American Academy of Liturgy presented him with its Berakah Award. Other books by Mitchell that have been published by Liturgical Press include Cult and Controversy, Mission and Ministry, and Rule of Prayer, Rule of Faith. He also contributed to The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary of Biblical Theology.