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American Catholics : A History.

By: Tentler, Leslie WoodcockMaterial type: TextTextSeries: JSTOR eBooksPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (417 p.)ISBN: 0300252196; 9780300252194Subject(s): Catholics -- United States -- History | Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual lifeGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Catholics : A HistoryDDC classification: 282/.73 LOC classification: BX1406Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: On the Fringes of Empire -- PROFILE: Eusebio Kino, S.J -- ONE: Spain's North American Frontier -- TWO: France in America -- THREE: Catholics in the British Colonies -- PART II: Growing with the Nation, 1815-1870 -- PROFILE: Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P -- FOUR: The Frontier Church -- FIVE: An Urban Stronghold -- SIX: Slavery and the Civil War -- PART III: A Turbulent Passage, 1871-1919 -- PROFILE: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C -- SEVEN: Institutional Growing Pains -- EIGHT: A People Numerous and Varied
NINE: "They Are Afraid of Democracy at Rome" -- PART IV: Exuberant Maturity, 1920-1962 -- PROFILE: John C. Cort -- TEN: This Confident Church -- ELEVEN: Catholic Minds: Education and Intellectual Life -- TWELVE: Public Catholicism: Politics and Social Movements -- PART V: A World Unbound, 1963-2015 -- PROFILE: Patricia Caron Crowley -- Thirteen: Something Like a Revolution -- Fourteen: Toward an Uncertain Future -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary: A sweeping history of American Catholicism from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: On the Fringes of Empire -- PROFILE: Eusebio Kino, S.J -- ONE: Spain's North American Frontier -- TWO: France in America -- THREE: Catholics in the British Colonies -- PART II: Growing with the Nation, 1815-1870 -- PROFILE: Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P -- FOUR: The Frontier Church -- FIVE: An Urban Stronghold -- SIX: Slavery and the Civil War -- PART III: A Turbulent Passage, 1871-1919 -- PROFILE: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C -- SEVEN: Institutional Growing Pains -- EIGHT: A People Numerous and Varied

NINE: "They Are Afraid of Democracy at Rome" -- PART IV: Exuberant Maturity, 1920-1962 -- PROFILE: John C. Cort -- TEN: This Confident Church -- ELEVEN: Catholic Minds: Education and Intellectual Life -- TWELVE: Public Catholicism: Politics and Social Movements -- PART V: A World Unbound, 1963-2015 -- PROFILE: Patricia Caron Crowley -- Thirteen: Something Like a Revolution -- Fourteen: Toward an Uncertain Future -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

A sweeping history of American Catholicism from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present.

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CHOICE Review

This superbly researched, elegantly written history looks at the development of Catholicism in the US and the diversity of its practitioners. Each of the five sections--"On the Fringes of Empire" [Spanish, French, British], "Growing with the Nation, 1815--1870," "A Turbulent Passage, 1871--1919," "Exuberant Maturity, 1920--1962," "A World Unbound, 1963--2015"--begins with a biography of a representative individual of the period, followed by two or three chapters discussing the major events and challenges of the particular time. In her analyses Tentler (emer., history, Catholic Univ. of America) highlights both strengths and moral complexities of the various periods. She focuses on the varying religious realities of lay Catholics of every era, even as she reports major developments involving clergy and religious sisters. As with any history, readers are likely to find that some issues are not clarified, mentioned only in passing, or overlooked entirely. But the study aptly chronicles a mission church that accepted slavery and then grew into a significant presence in urban parishes, only to experience significant church closures amid a sexual abuse crisis. This outstanding study describes how the Catholic Church once fostered the ethnic identity of Irish, German, Italian, and Polish immigrants and now serves Hispanic Americans and remains a significant feature of American life. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Regina A. Boisclair, emerita, Alaska Pacific University

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Leslie Woodcock Tentler is professor emerita in the department of history at the Catholic University of America and the author of Catholics and Contraception: An American History .

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