A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900 [electronic resource] : / James M. Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, James M., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Church history.

Southern States.

Catholic Church--Southern States--History.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a masterful survey of research on Catholicism in the South, Woods has done for that region what James Hennesey did for the Catholic Church in the United States in American Catholics

Contents:

Cross and sword: the Spanish Catholic Mission to La Florida, 1513-1763

Padres, prairies, and Piney Woods: Catholicism in Spanish Texas, 1519-1763

Fleur-de-Lis: Catholicism in French lower Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, 1673-1763

To the manor born: Catholics in the Southern English colonies, 1633-1763

The Carroll era: Southern Catholics and the new American republic, 1763-1815

Church and state: the erosion of European empires in the south, 1763-1821

Annexation and accommodation: Catholic growth within the expanding south, 1815-1845

From aliens to Confederates: Catholics in the south, 1845-1865

A regional religion: Catholic prelates in the Postbellum South, 1865-1900

Migrations, movements, and ministry: Catholicism in the South, 1845-1900.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-479) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-3904-5

0-8130-3660-7

OCLC:

738512651