Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)

Between 1930 and 1970, in a context of reorganization of Catholic private welfare, many Montreal priests and nuns were trained as professional social workers. Through their practices and ideas, it is possible to see how they contributed to building an expertise on urban problems, based on a rational...

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Main Author: Amélie Bourbeau
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA UMR 5190) 2015-01-01
Series:Chrétiens et Sociétés
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/chretienssocietes/3692
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description Between 1930 and 1970, in a context of reorganization of Catholic private welfare, many Montreal priests and nuns were trained as professional social workers. Through their practices and ideas, it is possible to see how they contributed to building an expertise on urban problems, based on a rational and pragmatic approach close to the principles of emerging professional social work. This expertise may be seen as a conciliation between social catholic values, traditional charity, and efforts to find rational solutions to modern life. The men and women studied thus were able to find harmony between faith and secular expertise.
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Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)
Chrétiens et Sociétés
Social work
Professionalization
Catholicism
title Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)
title_full Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)
title_fullStr Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)
title_full_unstemmed Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)
title_short Une expertise de terrain : l’expérience en travail social des prêtres et religieuses montréalais (1930-1970)
title_sort une expertise de terrain l experience en travail social des pretres et religieuses montrealais 1930 1970
topic Social work
Professionalization
Catholicism
url http://journals.openedition.org/chretienssocietes/3692
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