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Catholicism and American freedom : a history / John T. McGreevy.
Van Pelt Library BX1406.3 .M36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGreevy, John T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--United States--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Christianity and politics.
- History.
- Christianity and politics--Catholic Church.
- Liberty--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- United States.
- Liberty--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History.
- Liberty.
- Christianity and politics--Catholic Church--History.
- Christianity and politics--United States--History.
- United States--Church history.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
- Summary:
- Two centuries of struggles and sympathies between one religion and democracy in America. FOR TWO CENTURIES, Catholicism has played a profound and largely unexamined role in America's political and intellectual life. Emphasizing the community over the individual, Catholics have alternately challenged and supported American liberals on a variety of controversial issues, including slavery, public education, economic reform, the movies, contraception, the nuclear arms race, and abortion. The story of Catholicism is also international, as Catholics and non-Catholics reacted to people, ideas, and events abroad, from the 1848 revolutions to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Putting the current sexual-abuse scandal in the Church and the media's response in a much larger context, this stimulating history of both Catholicism and anti-Catholicism is a model of nuanced scholarship and provocative reading.
- Contents:
- The Eliot school rebellion, Boston, 1859
- Education and the nineteenth century Catholic revival
- Catholicism, slavery, and the cause of liberty
- Catholic freedom and civil war
- The nation
- The social question
- American freedom and Catholic power
- Democracy, religious freedom, and the nouvelle théologie
- Life (I)
- Life (II)
- A consistent ethic and sexual abuse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-406) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393047601
- OCLC:
- 51093310
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