Catholicism and the shaping of 19th century America / / Jon Gjerde ; edited by S. Deborah Kang [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778949903321
• Autore: Gjerde Jon <1953-2008, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-139-19976-5; 1-107-22848-4; 1-280-56843-7; 9786613598035; 1-139-20567-6; 0-511-84575-8; 1-139-20348-7; 1-139-20207-3; 1-139-20646-X; 1-139-20488-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: HIS036040
• Disciplina: 277.3/07
• Soggetti: Christianity - United States - Influence; Protestant churches - Relations - Catholic Church; United States Church history 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: 1. Editor's preface S. Deborah Kang; 2. Introduction Jon Gjerde; 3. The Protestant conundrum Jon Gjerde; The Catholic conundrum Jon Gjerde; 4. Conversion and the West Jon Gjerde; 5. Schools and the state Jon Gjerde; 6. Protestant and Catholic critiques of family and women Jon Gjerde; 7. The American economy and social justice Jon Gjerde; 8. Epilogue S. Deborah Kang.
• Sommario/riassunto: Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other. In so doing, Gjerde reveals the ways in ; which America's encounter with Catholicism was much more than a story about American nativism. Nineteenth-century religious debates raised questions about the fundamental underpinnings of the American state and society: the shape of the antebellum market economy, gender roles in the American family, and the place of slavery were only a few of the issues engaged by Protestants and Catholics in a lively and enduring dialectic. While the question of the place of Catholics in America was left unresolved, the very debates surrounding this question generated multiple conceptions of American pluralism and American national identity.