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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452065203321

Autore

Hennesey James J

Titolo

American Catholics [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the Roman Catholic community in the United States / / James Hennesey ; with a foreword by John Tracy Ellis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1981

ISBN

0-19-028115-4

0-19-501269-0

0-19-802036-8

1-280-52292-5

1-4294-0090-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

28273

Soggetti

Catholics - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: Spanish America; II: New France; III: Louisiana; IV: English America: Maryland; V: English America: Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York; VI: Revolution; VII: Organization of a Church; VIII: The Failure of Carroll's Plans; IX: The Era of the Common Man; X: Immigrants Become the Church; XI: Westward the Course of Empire; XII: Abolition and Civil War; XIII: Reconstruction; XIV: The Gilded Age; XV: Growing Pains in the Catholic Community; XVI: The End of the Beginning; XVII: So Certain and Set Apart; XVIII: Catholicism Unbound: The Church of the Twenties

XIX: We Shall Not Wither Up and Blow AwayXX: Cross and Flag; XXI: A Revolutionary Moment; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the development of the Catholic community in the United States from colonial times to the present and examines their influence on American history.