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Abbie Reese

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Connection to Illinois: Reese lives in Northwest Illinois.

Biography: Reese is an independent scholar and interdisciplinary artist who utilizes oral history and ethnographic methodologies to explore individual and cultural identity. She received an MFA in visual arts from the University of Chicago and was a fellow at the Columbia University Oral History Research Office Summer Institute. Her multimedia exhibit, [http://www.erasedfromthelandscape.com/ Erased from the Landscape: The Hidden Lives of Cloistered Nuns], has been shown in galleries and museums and she has presented her work at academic conferences internationally. She has traveled in approximately forty countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa; her retreat is a house, built in 1888, that she renovated in Northwest Illinois.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: https://www.facebook.com/OxfordDedicatedthebook
Abbie Reese on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=abbie+reese


Selected Titles

Dedicated to God :
ISBN: 0199947937 OCLC: 839396837

As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois.

Dedicated to god :
ISBN: 9780190490591 OCLC: 921864731

As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Abbie Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois. Seldom leaving their 25,000-square-foot gated enclosure, members of this community embrace an extreme version of poverty and anonymity-a separation that enables them to withdraw from the world to devote their lives to prayer. This removal, they contend, allows them to have a greater impact on humanity than if they maintained direct contact with loved ones and strangers.

 

 

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