Rome in America : transnational Catholic ideology from the Risorgimento to fascism / Peter R. D'Agostino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Agostino, Peter R., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman question.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from Italian state collections and newly opened Vatican archives, Peter D'Agostino paints a starkly different portrait.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Whose Rome? Whose Italy?; Transnational Perspectives on American Religious History; American History in a Global Age; Social Theory and Ideology; Chronology and Overview; Part I. Intransigence, 1848–1914; 1. The Roman Question: The Battle for Civilization, 1815–1878; 2. The Transnational Symbolic Contest for Rome, 1878–1914; 3. The Mayor of Rome Is an ''Atheist Jew,'' 1910–1914; Part II. Transformation, 1914–1929; 4. The Great War: ''Keep the Roman Question Alive,'' 1914–1920; 5. The Church Encounters the Order Sons of Italy in America, 1913–1921

6. Catholics Meet Mussolini: ''The Chosen Instrument in the Hands of Divine Providence,'' 1919–1929Part III. Realization, 1929–1940; 7. The Lateran Pacts of 1929 and the Crisis of 1931: Defending ''The Holy Island''; 8. Preaching Fascism and American Religious Politics; 9. Stubborn and Lonely: American Catholic Anti-Fascists; 10. Parish Conflicts: The Church and Fascist Italy Manage ''All Spirit of Rebellion''; Epilogue; Rememb

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.

ISBN:

9798890873996

9780807863411

0807863416

OCLC:

70724106