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Fathers on the frontier : French missionaries and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 / Michael Pasquier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pasquier, Michael, author.
- Series:
- Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
- Religion in America Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Missions--United States.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--United States--History.
- French--United States.
- French.
- Missions--United States--History.
- Missions.
- Missionaries--United States--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Michael Pasquier examines the 'lived' religion of French missionaries in their daily encounters with anti-Catholic Protestants and anti-clerical Catholics on the American frontier.
- Contents:
- Introduction : les confrères et les pères in American Catholic history
- Missionary formation and French Catholicism
- Missionary experience and frontier Catholicism
- Missionary revival and transnational Catholicism
- Missionary politics and ultramontane Catholicism
- Slavery, Civil War, and southern Catholicism
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-970712-X
- OCLC:
- 935285460
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