Communion of immigrants [[electronic resource] ] : a history of Catholics in America / / James T. Fisher

• Autore: Fisher James Terence
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008
• Edizione: [New ed.].
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 282/.73
• Soggetto topico: Catholics - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Church history
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-176) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE: Catholics in the New World; CHAPTER TWO: Building an American Catholic Community; CHAPTER THREE: The Rise of the Immigrant Church; CHAPTER FOUR: Catholic and American; CHAPTER FIVE: Reformers and Crusaders; CHAPTER SIX: The Uneasy Triumph of Catholic America; CHAPTER SEVEN: The People of God Divided?; CHRONOLOGY; FURTHER READING; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, starting his narrative with one of the first Spanish expeditions to Florida, in 1528. He follows the transformation of Catholicism into one of America's most culturally and ethnically diverse religions, including the English Catholics' early settlement in Maryland, the Spanish missions to the Native Americans, the Irish and German poor who came in searc
• Titolo autorizzato: Communion of immigrants
• ISBN: 0-19-773864-8; 0-19-988727-6; 1-283-00996-X; 9786613009968; 0-19-984225-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791887203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religion in American life.