Distinguished historian Robert Emmett Curran presents an informed and balanced study of the American Catholic Church's experience in its two most important regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other.
Rather than chronicling the well-reported sexual abuse scandal or advocating a particular reform agenda, David Gibson shows how the crisis in the church is unleashing forces that will change American Catholicism forever.
These portraits are powerful and highly personal because they tell the stories. both collective and personal, of each group, revealing agreement and dissension, closeness and alienation, growth and stagnation.
The Description for this book, Shaping American Religion, will be forthcoming.
Annotation As American Catholics and other Americans move into the twenty-first century it might be helpful to re-assess American Catholic religious and social thought during the past two centuries. Have...
In this lucid account, the unfinished story of Catholicism in America emerges clearly and compellingly, illuminating the inner life of the church and of the nation. Three magical adventures in-one!
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Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America.
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Would that land not also be a place like the Garden of Eden itself , where the needs of Adam and Eve were benevolently met ? In a promised land the inhabitants themselves would be new Adams , new Eves , in a paradise of good .