American Catholic history : a documentary reader / edited by Mark Massa, with Catherine Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Massa, Mark Stephen.

Osborne, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Catholic Church.

United States.

History.

United States--Church history.

Church history.

Physical Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University, [2008]

Summary:

American Catholic History makes available original documents produced in North America from the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century up to the present day. The texts have been selected to illuminate the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism. They are prefaced by brief editorial introductions which provide historical and biographical context for the texts. They illuminate broad themes in the development of the tradition, from its grappling with new frontiers to its long-time status as outside mainstream culture, and from its intellectual life and political engagement to patterns of worship and spirituality. American Catholic History offers an overview of the American Catholic experience from both the "top down" of institutional and intellectual history as well as from the "bottom up" of social, devotional, women's, and ethnic histories.

Contents:

Frontiers and encounter

Inside/outside

Catholicism and the intellectual life

Politics

Worship & the spiritual life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285).

ISBN:

9780814757451

0814757456

9780814757468

0814757464

OCLC:

175286424

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