Author: Joseph Paul RyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Travel Literature as Source Material for American Catholic History
Author: Joseph Paul RyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Culture and Redemption
Author: Tracy FessendenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400837308
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life have become trenchant as never before, Culture and Redemption radically challenges conventional depictions--celebratory or damning--of America's "secular" public sphere. Examining American legal cases, children's books, sermons, and polemics together with popular and classic works of literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Culture and Redemption shows how the vaunted secularization of American culture proceeds not as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but instead through concerted attempts to render dominant forms of Protestant identity continuous with democratic, civil identity. Fessenden shows this process to be thoroughly implicated, moreover, in practices of often-violent exclusion that go to the making of national culture: Indian removals, forced acculturations of religious and other minorities, internal and external colonizations, and exacting constructions of sex and gender. Her new readings of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Gilman, Fitzgerald, and others who address themselves to these dynamics in intricate and often unexpected ways advance a major reinterpretation of American writing.
Sources for U.S. History
Author: W. B. StephensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections, in particular those of the National Archives.
Culture and Redemption
Author: Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691049645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The Building of an American Catholic Church
Author: Joseph AgonitoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351593145
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Originally published in 1988. The new-found freedom and changing attitudes towards Catholics after the American Revolution presented the Catholic Church with its first real opportunity to prosper in the English speaking "new world". But the Catholic Church could not take advantage of this opportunity unless it shook off some of its "old world" characteristics and became accustomed to the American environment. This study attempts to analyse the very nature of American Catholicism by investigating the impact of the American environment on the development of the Catholic Church in American during the episcopacy of John Carroll. This title will be of interest to students of history and religious studies.
Iowa Journal of History
Author: Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author: American Catholic Historical Society of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Historical Outlook
Author: Routledge Library Editions: 19th Century Religion
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351587471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 6282
Book Description
Reissuing works originally published between 1973 and 1997, Routledge Library Editions: 19th Century Religion (18 volumes) offers a selection of scholarship covering historical developments in religious thinking. Topics include the origin of Catholicism in America, sexual liberation and religion in Europe, and the emergence of Atheism in Victorian England. This set also includes collections of sermons and essays from some of the most influential preachers of the nineteenth century.
The Catholic Historical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic church in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description