American Catholicism

Author : Chester Gillis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231551212

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Roman Catholicism in America by Chester Gillis Pdf

Who are American Catholics and what do they believe and practice? How has American Catholicism influenced and been influenced by American culture and society? This book examines the history of American Catholics from the colonial era to the present, with an emphasis on changes and challenges in the contemporary church. Chester Gillis chronicles America Catholics: where they have come from, how they have integrated into American society, and how the church has influenced their lives. He highlights key events and people, examines data on Catholics and their relationship to the church, and considers the church’s positions and actions on politics, education, and gender and sexuality in the context of its history and doctrines. This second edition of Roman Catholicism in America pays particular attention to the tumultuous past twenty years and points toward the future of the religion in the United States. It examines the unprecedented crisis of sexual abuse by priests—the legal, moral, financial, and institutional repercussions of which continue to this day—and the bishops’ role in it. Gillis also discusses the election of Pope Francis and the controversial role Catholic leadership has played in American politics.

Author : Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300219647

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American Catholics by Leslie Woodcock Tentler Pdf

A sweeping history of American Catholicism from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present "Tentler does justice to James Joyce's quip that Catholicism means 'here comes everybody.' This is the story of everybody--lay people, sisters, priests--who was part of the church in the United States, a story insightfully analyzed and admirably told. A definitive synthesis." --James M. O'Toole, author of The Faithful This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice and the impact of clergy on Catholic life and culture as she seeks to answer the question, What did it mean to be a "good Catholic" at particular times and in particular places? In its focus on Catholics' participation in American politics and Catholic intellectual life, this book includes in-depth discussions of Catholics, race, and the Civil War; Catholics and public life in the twentieth century; and Catholic education and intellectual life. Shedding light on topics of recent interest such as the role of Catholic women in parish and community life, Catholic reproductive ethics regarding birth control, and the Catholic church sex-abuse crisis, this engaging history provides an up-to-date account of the history of American Catholicism.

Author : Margaret M. McGuinness,Thomas F. Rzeznik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472654

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The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism by Margaret M. McGuinness,Thomas F. Rzeznik Pdf

Provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to understanding the complexity and diversity of the American Catholic experience.

Author : Mark Silk,Patricia O'Connell Killen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231549431

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The Future of Catholicism in America by Mark Silk,Patricia O'Connell Killen Pdf

Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place against the backdrop of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda and the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. What is the future of Catholicism in America? This volume considers the prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors—scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history—look at the church’s evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence. They explore the tensions among members of the hierarchy, between clergy and laity, and along lines of ethnicity, immigration status, class, generation, political affiliation, and degree of religious commitment. They conclude that American Catholicism’s future will be pluriform—reflecting the variety of cultural, political, ideological, and spiritual points of view that typify the multicultural, democratic society of which Catholics constitute so large a part.

Author : Michael J. Pfeifer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479801824

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The Making of American Catholicism by Michael J. Pfeifer Pdf

Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States Most histories of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed differently in different parts of the country. Such histories often treat northeastern Catholicism, such as the Irish Catholicism of Boston, as if it reflects the full history and experience of Catholicism across the United States. The Making of American Catholicism argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the development of American Catholicism. The American Catholic experience has diverged significantly among regions; if we do not examine how it has taken shape in local cultures, we miss a lot. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the volume assesses the role of region in American Catholic history, carefully exploring the development of American Catholic cultures across the continental United States. Drawing on extensive archival research, The Making of American Catholicism argues that American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholics creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts. They emphasized notions of republicanism, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender, resulting in a unique form of Catholicism that dominates the United States today. The book offers close attention to race and racism in American Catholicism, including the historical experiences of African American and Latinx Catholics as well as Catholics of European descent.

Author : Jay P. Dolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0195168852

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In Search of an American Catholicism by Jay P. Dolan Pdf

For more than two hundred years American Catholics have struggled to reconcile their national and religious values. In this incisive and accessible account, distinguished Catholic historian Jay P. Dolan explores the way American Catholicism has taken its distinctive shape and follows how Catholics have met the challenges they have faced as New World followers of an Old World religion. Dolan argues that the ideals of democracy, and American culture in general, have deeply shaped Catholicism in the United States as far back as 1789, when the nation's first bishop was elected by the clergy (and the pope accepted their choice). Dolan looks at the tension between democratic values and Catholic doctrine from the conservative reaction after the fall of Napoleon to the impact of the Second Vatican Council. Furthermore, he explores grassroots devotional life, the struggle against nativism, the impact and collision of different immigrant groups, and the disputed issue of gender. Today Dolan writes, the tensions remain, as we see signs of a resurgent traditionalism in the church in response to the liberalizing trend launched by John XXIII, and also a resistance to the conservatism of John Paul II. 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. 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.

Author : Timothy Matovina
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691163574

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Latino Catholicism by Timothy Matovina Pdf

Discusses the growing population of Hispanic-Americans worshipping in the Catholic Church in the United States.

Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307797919

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American Catholic by Charles Morris Pdf

"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty years later, New York City was home to more Irish Catholics than Dublin. Today, the United States boasts some sixty million members of the Catholic Church, which has become one of this country's most influential cultural forces. In American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church, Charles R. Morris recounts the rich story of the rise of the Catholic Church in America, bringing to life the personalities that transformed an urban Irish subculture into a dominant presence nationwide. Here are the stories of rogues and ruffians, heroes and martyrs--from Dorothy Day, a convert from Greenwich Village Marxism who opened shelters for thousands, to Cardinal William O'Connell, who ran the Church in Boston from a Renaissance palazzo, complete with golf course. Morris also reveals the Church's continuing struggle to come to terms with secular, pluralist America and the theological, sexual, authority, and gender issues that keep tearing it apart. As comprehensive as it is provocative, American Catholic is a tour de force, a fascinating cultural history that will engage and inform both Catholics and non-Catholics alike. "The best one-volume history of the last hundred years of American Catholicism that it has ever been my pleasure to read. What's appealing in this remarkable book is its delicate sense of balance and its soundly grounded judgments." --Andrew Greeley

Author : John Tracy Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:32239001527494

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American Catholicism by John Tracy Ellis Pdf

Author : James J. Hennesey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198020363

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American Catholics by James J. Hennesey Pdf

Written by one of the foremost historians of American Catholicism, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic Church in America from colonial times to the present. Hennesey examines, in particular, minority Catholics and developments in the western part of the United States, a region often overlooked in religious histories.

Author : Chester Gillis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0231108702

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Roman Catholicism in America by Chester Gillis Pdf

Offering a wealth of information about church membership and ethnic and geographical makeup, the book explores how Catholic views on issues such as human life, abortion, poverty, and American culture have profoundly affected political and moral discourse in the United States. A chronology, glossary, profiles of prominent American Catholics, annotated bibliography, and a list of electronic resources are also included.

Author : William V. D'Antonio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742552152

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American Catholics Today by William V. D'Antonio Pdf

American Catholics Today presents trends in American Catholic opinion from 1987 to 2005, using four identical surveys. These surveys depict trends in Catholics' views of the sacraments, church authority, church teachings in the area of sex and gender, and strength of Catholic identity. This book suggests that the future will see more Catholics making decisions about their own faith and fewer Catholics who are fervently committed to church life.

Author : Robert Emmett Curran
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813219677

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Shaping American Catholicism by Robert Emmett Curran Pdf

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

Author : Joseph P. Chinnici
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197573006

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American Catholicism Transformed by Joseph P. Chinnici Pdf

Situating the church within the context of post-World War II globalization and the Cold War, American Catholicism Transformed draws on previously untapped archival sources to provide deep background to developments within the American Catholic Church in relationship to American society at large. Shaped by anti-communist sentiment and responsive to American cultural trends, the Catholic community adopted "strategies of domestic containment," stressing the close unity between the Church and the "American way of life." A focus on the unchanging character of God's law as expressed in social hierarchies of authority, race, and gender provided a public visage of unity and uniformity. However, the emphasis on American values mainstreamed into the community the political values of personal rights, equality, acceptance of the arms race, and muted the Church's inherited social vision. The result was a deep ambivalence over the forces of secularization. The Catholic community entered a transitional stage in which "those on the right" and "those on the left" battled for control of the Church's vision. International networking, reform of religious life among women, international congresses of the laity, the institutionalization of the liturgical movement, and the burgeoning civil right movement positioned the community to receive the Vatican Council in a distinctly American way. During the Second Vatican Council, the American bishops and theological experts gradually adopted the reforming currents of the world-wide Church. This convergence of international and national forces of renewal -- and resistance to them -- says Joseph Chinnici, will continue to shape the American Catholic community's identity in the twenty-first century.

Author : Peters, Benjamin T.,Rademacher, Nicholas
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337378

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American Catholicism in the 21st Century by Peters, Benjamin T.,Rademacher, Nicholas Pdf