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Nun
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Nun. A member of a religious order of women. The term is technically used of Christian women who belong to a religious order with solemn vows, but it is used more loosely in practice, and is applied at times to women in orders in other religions—e.g. to bhikṣunīs in Buddhism (see
BHIKṢU).
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Nuns Discuss Changes Of Church, Community
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/28/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...women. Experts say most of them are nuns. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's chief...conference, said it's a good time to be a nun because the "opportunity for service...that believes as you do." While many nuns believe there is more to be done, they...
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Nuns Leave Their Brains to Science
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/21/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...disorders. The 61 surviving nuns recently completed their...physical tests for the Nun Study, one of the world...brains donated by the the nuns who died before them...difficult. About half the nuns in the study developed...Of the seven remaining Nun Study participants based...
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Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; doi: 10.1017/S000964070900064X Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700...achievements of Silvia Evangelisti's book on nuns in the early modem era is that readers...and the interaction between cloistered nuns and the world around them. A particular...
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Nuns' tales reveal more keys to long life.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/20/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...project called the Nun Study. Nuns who had articulated...Kansas, assisted the Nun Study in an earlier...She analyzed the nuns' autobiographies...of the things the nuns are doing that promote...Treat depression. The Nun Study helps to confirm...
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Nuns as Artist: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...late medieval/early modern nuns. In particular, it provides a vivid demonstration of the way nuns could use "artless" (5) visual...here in color) produced by a nun around 1500 in the Benedictine...brief introduction comparing nuns' art work with traditional devotional...
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Nuns in Alzheimer's study are leaving their brains to science
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...disorders. The 61 surviving nuns recently completed their...physical tests for the Nun Study, one of the world...brains donated by the nuns who died before them...difficult. About half the nuns in the study developed...Of the seven remaining Nun Study participants based...
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Theravada Nuns: reclaiming the lost legacy.
Newspaper article from: Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...The restoration of the Order of nuns has been a subject of controversy...obstacle of the restoration of the nuns' Order in Sri Lanka is said...female novice aspiring to be a nun should first receive ordination...against the revival of the Order of nuns is that the lineage of the Theravada...
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Nuns with some bad habits
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 8/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...of routine from a nun can be a broadway...the aisles are the nuns themselves. "I spent...of my life around nuns. And most of my experiences...the humour of the nun. Though it may be...based on a real- life nun," says Dan Goggin...imaginatively wild nuns. At a drop of a habit...
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Nuns of the '90s Discuss Their Lives
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 2/19/1993; 700+ words
; ...who do choose to become nuns are entering religious...religious life by the nuns who taught them in high...teen. DOROTHY WARD, Nun: I was 14 when I wanted...from business owner to nun has been challenging...but some of these new nuns face far more complicated...
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THE MEDIEVAL NUNS AT WATTON: READING FEMALE AGENCY FROM MALE-AUTHORIZED DIDACTIC TEXTS
Magazine article from: Magistra; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...admitting the affair, the nun was attacked by the other nuns, stripped, shackled...he was seized upon by nuns who bound him and forced the nun to castrate him with her...investigate. Aelred forbade the nuns from locking the nun up again since he argued...
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nuns
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
nuns. Though consecrated virgins were present...of life. Secular law tracts indicate that nuns enjoyed a privileged status in society of...Ballymore (Co. Westmeath) and the presence of nuns at the male houses of Mellifont , Jerpoint...
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Louviers, Nuns of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Louviers, Nuns of The third case of demonic possession reported in seventeenth...second was the great scandal of Father Urbain Grandier and the nuns of Loudun in 1633. The case of the Nuns of the Franciscan Tertiaries at Louviers concerned Sister...
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Loudun, Nuns of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Loudun, Nuns of The second of three cases of demonic...in 1611. The third was the case of the Nuns of the Franciscan Tertiaries at Louviers...as diabolical possession. The numerous nuns who inhabited the convent showed all of...
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nun
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
nun Woman belonging to a religious order who has taken monastic vows (see monasticism ). Nuns may belong to either a closed order, or one...Christianity , and Taoism all have orders of nuns. Nuns serve a preparatory period called a novitiate...
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Monks and Nuns
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
277. Monks and Nuns See also 81. CHURCH ; 349. RELIGION . anchoritism...Cistercianism the rule of an order of monks and nuns founded in 1098 in Citeaux, France...Urbanist a member of an order of Franciscan nuns. See also 323. POPE .
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