The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders

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The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders is written by Patricia Wittberg and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791422291 (ISBN 10) and 9780791422298 (ISBN 13).

A sociological analysis of the periodically recurring cycles of Roman Catholic religious life, applying the theories and research on large-scale social movements and on the internal dynamics of other intentional communities to the data presented in historical works on specific periods. Following an introductory chapter (The Extent of the Problem),