Event Title
Green Nuns
Location
Diamond 323
Start Date
30-4-2015 1:50 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
The focus of my research is the ways that nuns (green nuns) practice their ministry through farming and agricultural work, and the way that the motto of ora et labora - pray and work - influences their religious ministry and their life as nuns. Essentially, I will discuss how nuns' agricultural works serve as their means of carrying out their religious vocations. I will also discuss Catholic earth-theology, and analyze the Catholic conception of the earth and the way that this imagination influences the green nuns' ministry and outlook on humanity, theology, and ecology.
Faculty Sponsor
Debra Campbell
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Religious Studies Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1630
Green Nuns
Diamond 323
The focus of my research is the ways that nuns (green nuns) practice their ministry through farming and agricultural work, and the way that the motto of ora et labora - pray and work - influences their religious ministry and their life as nuns. Essentially, I will discuss how nuns' agricultural works serve as their means of carrying out their religious vocations. I will also discuss Catholic earth-theology, and analyze the Catholic conception of the earth and the way that this imagination influences the green nuns' ministry and outlook on humanity, theology, and ecology.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/371