American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion / Michael P. Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Michael P., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics--United States--Historiography.

Catholics.

Catholics--United States--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 219 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.

Contents:

How the Irish became Protestant in America

Why the famine Irish became Catholic in America

Italian American Catholicism : the standard story and its problems

Were the Acadians/Cajuns really good Catholics?

Hispanic Catholicism and the illusion of knowledge

Protestantism and the academic study of American religion : an enduring alliance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-214) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4214-0199-1

OCLC:

794701417

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access