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Books about Dorothy Day
American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement by Call Number: BX1407 .P24 A44 1996Publication Date: 1996This collection of 12 essays by scholars and Catholic Worker activists underscores the pivotal role of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement in challenging the Catholic Church, once linked to unquestioning American militarism, to assert its prophetic pacifist voice.
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty by Call Number: BX4705.D283 H46 2017Publication Date: 2017The life and work of Dorothy Day—the iconic, celebrated, and controversial Catholic whom Pope Francis called a “great American”—told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter. This thoroughly researched and intimate biography provides a valuable and nuanced portrait of an undersung and provocative American woman.
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker by Call Number: BX801.C369653 R63 1984Publication Date: 1984This work examines Dorothy Day's vital role as editor, publisher, and chief writer the person who guided the paper's content and tone until her death in 1980 at the age of 83.
Dorothy Day for Armchair Theologians by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780664236854Publication Date: 2014In spite of having no formal training in theology, Day's work and writing on behalf of the poor and oppressed bears eloquent testimony to the creativity and courage of her theological vision. This book is the perfect introduction to the Day's remarkable life and powerful vision.- A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement byCall Number: BX810 .M5Publication Date: 1973
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Call Number: PS153.C3 E45 2003Publication Date: 2003The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common."
Love Is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day by Call Number: HQ1413.D24 F67 1986Publication Date: 1986
The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day: A Feminist Perspective by Call Number: BX4705.D283 O26 1991Publication Date: 1991Discusses her life and work and the effect that her experience as a woman had on her leadership of a mostly male organization.
Searching for Christ: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day by Call Number: BX4705 .D283 M477 1994Publication Date: 1994A work of intellectual and spiritual history which explores the religious vision and life's work of Dorothy Day, co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker and the movement of the same name. Day is widely acclaimed as a pioneer of American social Catholicism.
Dissertations and Theses about Dorothy Day
Barnette, Sean Michael. Houses of Hospitality: The Material Rhetoric of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2011. Web. 6 Dec. 2016.
Hebbeler, Michael H. The Sister Karamazov: Dorothy Day's Encounter with Dostoevsky's Novel. MA Thesis, University of Dayton, 2009. Web. 5 Oct 2021.
Marsh, Sabrina. Religious Women in Modern American Social Reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple McPherson, Dorothy Day, and the Rhetorical Invention of Humanitarian Authority. PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012. Web. 6 Dec. 2016.
Rush, Katie Louise. Dorothy Day and the Matter of Authority: A Rhetorical Analysis. MA Thesis, University of Georgia, 2008. Web. 7 Dec. 2016.
Schulz, William Patric. Dorothy Day's Distributism and Her Vision for Catholic Politics. PhD diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2017. Web. 15 May 2018.
Stockwell, Tracy Ann. Rhetorical Invention, Leadership, And Dialogue: Dorothy Day's Extemporaneous Encounters. PhD diss., Marquette University, 2013. Web. 15 May 2018.