Abstract
demic fields of psychology and particularly sociology left distinct imprints on the institutional transformation of congregations of American women religious in the period surrounding the Second Vatican Council. Though social-scientific ideas influ enced diverse changes that sisters implemented in their congregational customs and rules?from dress and daily schedules to the apostolate?the most profound and com plex effects of the social sciences on sisters were evident in the decision-making processes that religious congregations embraced in the 1970s as antiauthoritarian theories and small group models that developed in academic spheres after the Second World War contributed to a general shift among sisters from hierarchical models of authority toward more egalitarian leadership structures. This essay explores this shift within two congregations of sisters in the Pacific Northwest by analyzing the relationship between the self-study tools utilized by each congregation
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