The Making of American Catholicism (eBook)

Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience

Michael J. Pfeifer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0182-4 (ISBN)

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Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United StatesMost histories of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed differently in different parts of the country. Such histories often treat northeastern Catholicism, such as the Irish Catholicism of Boston, as if it reflects the full history and experience of Catholicism across the United States.The Making of American Catholicism argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the development of American Catholicism. The American Catholic experience has diverged significantly among regions; if we do not examine how it has taken shape in local cultures, we miss a lot. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the volume assesses the role of region in American Catholic history, carefully exploring the development of American Catholic cultures across the continental United States.Drawing on extensive archival research, The Making of American Catholicism argues that American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholics creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts. They emphasized notions of republicanism, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender, resulting in a unique form of Catholicism that dominates the United States today. The book offers close attention to race and racism in American Catholicism, including the historical experiences of African American and Latinx Catholics as well as Catholics of European descent.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: African American catholics • American conservatism • Americanism • american nationalism • Apparitions • black Catholics • Catholicism and U.S. electoral politics • Catholicism in the American West • Catholicism in the Pacific Northwest • Catholics on the U.S.Supreme Court • clerical authority • clerical sexual abuse • communalistic Catholic distinctiveness • cultural Catholicism • Czech Catholics • desegregation • ethnic separatism • European immigrant Catholics • German Catholics • Hispano-descended Catholics • immigrant Catholic cultures • individualistic capitalism • Integration • Irish-American identity • irish catholics • Latinx Catholics • Los Angeles • Lower Midwest • Marian Revival • Mexican Catholics • Midwestern Catholicism • New Orleans Catholicism • parochial communalism • Race • Racism • Region • Regional Catholic cultures • Segregation • Southern California • transnational • Upper Midwestern • white ethnic Catholics
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-0182-8 / 1479801828
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-0182-4 / 9781479801824