| Description |
viii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface / David J. Endres -- Remapping American Catholicism / Timothy Matovina -- "Organized Catholic womanhood": suffrage, citizenship and the National Council of Catholic Women / Jeanne Petit -- Mother Katharine Drexel's benevolent empire: the Bureau of Catholic Indian missions and the education of Native Americans, 1885-1935 / Amanda Bresie -- The Daughters of Charity as cultural intermediaries: women, religion, and race in early twentieth-century Los Angeles / Kristine Ashton Gunnell -- Dorothy Day and César Chávez: American Catholic lives in nonviolence / Anne Klejment -- Black power, Vatican II, and the emergence of black Catholic liturgies / Matthew J. Cressler -- The Cold War, the Council, and American Catholicism in a global world / Joseph P. Chinnici. |
| Summary |
"For more than thirty years, the quarterly journal U.S. Catholic historian has mapped the diverse terrain of American Catholicism. This collection of essays, including seven of the most popular and path-breaking contributions of recent years, tells the story of Catholics previously underappreciated by historians: women, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and those on the frontier and borderlands."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Church history.
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| Added Author |
Endres, David J. (David Jeffrey), 1979- editor.
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| Added Title |
U.S. Catholic historian.
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| ISBN |
0813229693 |
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9780813229690 |
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