Frontiers of faith : bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic / John R. Dichtl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dichtl, John R., 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Church history--19th century.

United States.

Catholic Church--United States--History--19th century.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley -- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening -- expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors. Using extensive correspondence, reports, diaries, court documents, apologetical works, and other records of Catholic clergy, John R. Dichtl shows how Catholic leadership successfully pursued strategies of growth in frontier regions while c

Contents:

The view to the West

A central role for priests

"Presumptuous renegades" : controlling priests and congregations

Making sacred place : churches and religious goods

The promise and risks of proximity on the frontier

Emphatic persuasion : teaching, processions, preaching, and polemics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.

Description based on online resource: title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed October 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9786613233264

9780813138817

0813138817

9780813135106

0813135109

9781283233262

1283233266

9780813172934

0813172934

OCLC:

229058383