The Cambridge companion to American Catholicism / edited by Margaret M. McGuinness, La Salle University, Thomas F. Rzeznik, Seton Hall University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGuinness, Margaret M., editor.

Rzeznik, Thomas F., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to religion.

Cambridge companions to religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of American Catholicism's historical development and distinctive features. The essays - all specially commissioned for this volume - highlight the inner diversity of American Catholicism and trace the impact of American Catholics on all aspects of society, including education, social welfare, politics, and intellectual life. The volume also addresses topics of contemporary concern, such as gender and sexuality, arts and culture, social activism, and the experiences of Black, Latinx, Asian-American, and cultural Catholics. Taken together, the essays in this Companion provide context for understanding American Catholicism as it is currently experienced, and help to situate present-day developments and debates within their longer trajectory.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Part I Historical Overview

1 American Catholicism's Early Foundations

Spanish and French Missions in Florida and Louisiana

The English in Maryland

Republican Catholicism

Further Reading

2 The Immigrant Church, 1820-1908

A Growing Catholic Population

The Immigrant Parish and Catholic Subculture

Internal Debates: Americanization or Separatism

Conclusion

3 The Catholic Century

Social Change

Public Life

Religious Life

Crisis

Part II Catholic Life and Culture

4 Catholic Worship

Mission and Evangelization

Devotionalism

Liturgical Renewal

Worship after the Second Vatican Council

5 Catholic Intellectual Life

Catholics Negotiating America: Early Republic to 1870

Americanism, Modernism, and the Catholic Rennaissance

Postwar Developments

6 Catholic Education

Establishment and Early Growth, 1790-1900

Expansion and Centralization, 1900-1945

Postwar Surge, 1945-1965

Challenges of Sustainability, 1965-Present

7 Social Welfare and Social Reform

From Inception to 1845

Famine Migration through World War I

From World War I to Vatican II

Vatican II and the Fifty Years After

8 Women Religious

Early Foundations and Growth in Antebellum America

Time of Growth: The 1860s to 1940s

Institution Builders

Into a Modern Age

New Nuns in the World: The 1940s to the Twenty-First Century

9 Catholics and Politics

Colonial Politics: From Inside to Outside

Early National Politics: From Outside to Inside.

Later National Politics: From Bottom to Top

Modern Politics: The Catholic Two-Party System

10 Arts and Culture

Arts and Culture before 1920

Catholic Revival American Style, 1920-1960

1960s-1980s: Change and Realignment

Film and Television

Epilogue: Heavenly Bodies

11 Anti-Catholicism in the United States

Explanations for the Anti-Catholic Bias

Patterns of Anti-Catholic Activity in the United States

The Colonial Era

The Nineteenth Century

The Twentieth Century

Contemporary Manifestations of Catholic ''Otherness''

12 Gender and Sexuality

Introduction: Deviance and Purity - Dueling Images of US Catholics

From Awful Disclosures to Casti Connubii: The Development of a Reputation

The Wages of Polarization and the Endurance of a Reputation: From Birth Control and Abortion to Clerical Sex Abuse and Same-Sex Marriage

Conclusion: Old Themes, New Challenges

13 American Catholics in a Global Context

Mission to the Americas

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Multiple Directions within and from the United States

Growth in Mission Impetus: 1900-1950

Mission to Latin America in the Post-WWII Era

Conclusion: American Catholics and Global Catholicism

Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism

14 American Catholic Laywomen and Feminism

Middle-Class Domesticity in the Progressive Era

Divisions and Reformulations in the Vatican II Era

From Gender Rights to Human Rights

15 Black Catholics

Who Are Black Catholics?

Present from the Beginning

Slavery, Black Catholics, and the Building of the American Catholic Church

Black Catholic Parishes

The Catholic Response to Emancipation

Black Priests

Catholic Evangelization in the Black Community.

The Rise of Black Catholic Lay Leadership

Working for Racial Justice in the Church and Society

16 Latinx Catholicism

Prologue: Contested Terms and Identity

Studying Latinx Catholicism

Part One: An Alternative History

The Colonial Origins of Some Latinx Catholics

Immigrant Church

Empowerment and Opposition

Postwar Immigration and Latinx Catholicism

Part Two: Key Themes in Contemporary Latinx Catholicism

Religion of the Abuelitas

Communities without Borders: Gifts and Challenges

Teología en conjunto

Language and Apostolic Movements

A Pope for Latinx Catholics

Whither Latinx Majority Catholicism?

17 Asian-American Catholics

Chinese and Japanese Catholics before 1960

The Post-1965 Era

Leadership and Advocacy

Devotional Life and Cultural Practices

18 Cultural Catholicism

An Era of Change and Crisis

A Complex Development

Keeping Cultural Catholics Connected to Catholicism

The Future of Cultural Catholicism

Part IV Conclusion

19 US Catholicism in the Twenty-First Century

Trends in Catholic Population

Regional Distribution

Trends in Catholic Practice and Belief

Mass Attendance

Core and Peripheral Catholics

Other Sacramental Practice

Former Catholics

Catholic Beliefs and Identity

Trends in Pastoral Leadership

Aging and Diminishing Priest Population

Parish Reconfiguration Options

Permanent Deacons

Lay Ecclesial Ministers

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021).

ISBN:

9781108634922

1108634923

9781108633987

1108633986

9781108560900

1108560903