Shaping American Catholicism : Maryland and New York, 1805-1915 / Robert Emmett Curran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curran, Robert Emmett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Maryland--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--New York (State)--History.

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Religion--History.

Religion.

Maryland--Church history.

Maryland.

New York (State)--Church history.

New York (State).

United States--Church history.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Distinguished historian Robert Emmett Curran presents an informed and balanced study of the American Catholic Church's experience in its two most important regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. The Chesapeake""; ""1. Ambrose Marchal, the Jesuits, and the Demise of Ecclesial Republicanism in Maryland, 1818-1838""; ""2. Splendid Poverty: Jesuit Slave holding in Maryland, 1805-1838 ""; ""3. From Saints to Secessionists: Reading the Past as Prologue""; ""4. The Finger of God Is Here: The Advent of the Miraculous in the Nineteenth-Century American Catholic Community""; ""5. Rome, the American Church, and Slavery""

""6. The First American Jesuit Province and the Shifting Center of Catholicism""""Part 2. New York""; ""7. Prelude to Americanism: The New York Accademia and Clerical Radicalism in the Late Nineteenth Century""; ""8. The McGlynn Affair and the Shaping of the New Conservatism in American Catholicism, 1886-1899""; ""9. Listen to Our Voice . . . Walk in the Ancient Paths: The Episcopacy and the Road to Universal Parochial Education""; ""10. The Church in the Public Square: Archbishop Corrigan and the Crusade against Roman-Sanctioned Liberalism in the 1890's""

""Part 3. Social Justice and the Intellectual Life""""11. Confronting The Social Question: American Catholic Thought and the Socio-Economic Order in the Nineteenth Century""; ""12. Vying to Be the Intellectual Center: Catholic Higher Education in New York and Washington, 1884-1914""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-1968-X

OCLC:

813928721