Models of charitable care

Heijst, Annelies van.

Models of charitable care Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 / [electronic resource] : by Annelies van Heijst. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - 1 online resource (x, 414 p.) : ill. - Brill's series in church history, Religious history and culture series ; v. 33. v. 1 1572-4107 ; . - Brill's series in church history ; d. 33. Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 1 .

Translated from the Dutch. Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-408) and index.

Introduction -- History of the problem -- A history of care -- Charity as a historical care practice -- History and ethics -- Care and faith -- Method and purpose -- Definitions of care -- Caring for roosje -- Reconstruction of a life story -- Tribute to a mother -- Construction of a complaint -- An appropriate and yet contestable judgement on care -- Men in association : class and charity -- Catholic care provision in Amsterdam -- Bishop van Vree -- Father Frentrop, Doctor Cramer and their association of municence -- Father Hesseveld, a secular priest -- Activities of the in terms of care -- An instrumental model of charity -- Ladies and housemaids : gender and charity Catholic caring women in historiography -- Education for girls -- The servants' issue -- Beyond the thesis of the 'civilisation offensive' -- Gender, class, and religion -- Powerful and empowering care : confession and charity -- Approach and definitions -- Benevolence as both care and power -- Humanising Protestantism -- Prison reform by Fry -- Butler's dedication to prostitutes -- Influence of Fry and Butler on the Netherlands -- The inner mission movement -- Conceptual comments -- From the viewpoint of care receivers -- Evelina's memoirs -- The very beginning -- The arrival of Mietje Stroot -- A controversial first communion -- Institutional expansion -- Nursemaids become real sisters -- A charitable care practice experienced from within -- Civilisation offensive, charitable solidarity, or caring power -- Tronto's fourth phase revised : two responses to care -- Care leavers and their opposite judgements -- The care vision in the normative texts -- Normative writings and daily life -- History of the church and history of religion -- Principles and a name -- The rule -- Instructions for the upbringing of the children -- The constitutions of 1882 -- The sisterly care vision : a referential and a replacement view -- The purpose of the congregation in terms of care solidarity with strangers because of metaphorical kinship -- Caring for the children of God.

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Arme Zusters van het Goddelijk Kind.
Zusters van 'De Voorzienigheid' (1970)


Church work with children--Catholic Church.
Church work with children--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Nuns--Netherlands--Amsterdam.


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