From convents to covens, this author learnt sisterhood takes many forms
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“I can’t stop thinking about the nuns,” says Sam George-Allen, a young author who set out to examine the magical power of women who collaborate, and ended up discovering a growth in young women saying “I’m out” and joining a nunnery.
“There is this small, but significant, resurgence of young women seeking out, and joining, convents: usually very traditional convents where they wear the habit and usually cloistered (cut off from society).
“Most of the population of nuns in the world are in their sixties, but there is this a small, but obvious, group of young women who are just going, ‘I’m out.'”
By “out”, George-Allen, 29, means out of societal expectations of what young women should be and do, out of materialism, and into a more “meaningful” life. (Though some nuns do stay in touch with contemporary communication, via platforms such as Twitter or Instagram. See: “the media nun”, Chicago-based Sister Helena Burns.)
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