Les mutations des croyances et des valeurs dans la modernité

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Robert A. Orsi

St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help. Robert A. Orsi tells us that the women who were drawn to St. Jude - daughters and granddaughters of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Ireland - were the first generations of Catholic women to make lives for themselves outside of their ethnic enclaves. Orsi explores the ambitions and dilemmas of these women as they dealt with the pressures of the Depression and the Second World War, made modern marriages for themselves, entered the workplace, took care of relatives in their old neighborhoods, and raised children in circumstances very different from those of their mothers and grandmothers. Drawing on testimonies written in the periodicals devoted to St. Jude and on interviews with women who felt their lives were changed by St. Jude's intervention, Orsi shows how devotion to St. Jude enabled these women to negotiate their way amid the conflicting expectations of their two cultures - American and Catholic.

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Laurel Kendall

I describe in these pages the system of belief and practice I found among women and shamans in and around Enduring Pine Village, Republic of Korea (author).

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Henri J. M. Nouwen

In three chapters the author formulates and answers a new and compelling question: Who am I as a living memory of God? The challenge to Christians is to become a living reminder of God. The way to meet this challenge is to seek a life in which personal prayer and service to others sustain and enrich one another. Addressed to all Christians who want to strenthen and deepen the meaning of their lives.

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Howard L. Harrod

The power of religion to preserve individual and group identity is perhaps nowhere more evident than among Native American peoples. In the Becoming and Remaining a People the author shows how the oral traditions and ritual practices of Northern Plains Indians developed, how they were transformed at critical points in their history, and how they provided them with crucial means of establishing and maintaining their respective identities.