This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and 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 responded with nursing care and spiritual sustenance. As the United States became more complex and social inequities appeared, Dominicans cried out for social and economic justice. Amidst the ugliness and social dislocation of modern society, Dominicans offered beauty through the liturgical arts, the fine arts, music, drama, and film, all designed to enrich the culture. Through it all, the Dominicans cultivated their own identity as well, undergoing regular self-examination and renewal.
- Cover
- Preaching with Their Lives
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Dominicans on Mission
- DOMINICANS IN THE WORLD
- A Joyful Spectrum of Service: The Order of Preachers in New York
- “In the Midst of Sorrow and Death”: The Work of the Dominican Sisters in Tennessee during the Yellow Fever Epidemics
- Reclaiming the Sinsinawa Dominicans’ Legacy of Catholic Progressive Education
- Walking in Solidarity: Dominican Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in the Modern United States
- A Corporate Stance for Social Justice: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, California, and the 1980s Sanctuary Movement
- Aggiornamento on Campus: William Blase Schauer, OP, and the Las Cruces Experiment
- BEING DOMINICAN
- Call and Response: American Dominican Artists and Vatican II
- Afire with the Itinerant Spirit: Paradigm Shifts in the Foreign Missions
- Dominican Monasteries: Ever Ancient, Ever New
- More Than a Mustard Seed: The Parable Conference for Dominican Life and Mission
- From Teacher to Tutor: Adapting a Historic Ministry of Education to Contemporary Realities
- Samuel Mazzuchelli, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and the Making of American Saints
- List of Contributors
- Index
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