| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
504 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1500-1780 -- I. Conquest and Conversion in the New World -- The Spanish and French Indian missions in North America -- II. Catholicism and Native American Cultures -- What happened when Catholics came into contact with the world of the Indians -- III. Catholics in the English Colonies -- What it meant to be Catholic in colonial Maryland -- A REPUBLICAN INTERLUDE, 1780-1820 -- IV. A New Beginning -- The attempt to form an American version of Roman Catholicism -- THE IMMIGRANT CHURCH, 1820-1920 -- V. Immigrant Catholics: A Social Profile -- The ten major Catholic immigrant groups and their patterns of settlement, Work, and economic mobility -- VI. The Parish and the People -- The organization of the local church and the struggle for control -- VII. The Neighborhood and Its Gods -- The relationship between neighborhood, parish, and religion -- VIII. The Catholic Ethos -- The four marks of devotional Catholicism: authority, sin. ritual, and the -- miraculous -- IX. Handing on the Faith -- The educative role of family, church, school. and the press -- X. Schools -- The emergence of the parochial school along with the high school and the -- college -- XI. Religion and Society -- Conflict among immigrant groups and the debate over the role of the church in -- the modern world -- XII. Toward a Social Gospel -- The Catholic response to the Industrial Age -- THE END OF AN ERA, 1920-60 -- XIII. Changes in Church and Nation -- The organization of the institutional church, the persistence of immigrant -- Catholicism, and the challenges presented by Black and Mexican newcomers -- XIV. Religion, Education, and Reform -- The golden age of devotional Catholicism, the expansion of the educational -- Network, and the move toward social reform -- THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION, 1960-84 -- XV. A New Catholicism -- Bringing the church up to date, and the effects of this change. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [455]-492. |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Church history.
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| ISBN |
038515206X: $15.95 |
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