Catholics in the American Century (eBook)

Recasting Narratives of U.S. History

R. Scott Appleby, Kathleen Sprows Cummings (Herausgeber)

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2012
224 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-6520-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Refocusing the narrative of 20th-century America on the Catholic presence in the United States.

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created the largest private school system in the nation; and established a vast network of hospitals, orphanages, and charitable organizations. Yet in both scholarly and popular works of history, the distinctive presence and agency of Catholics as Catholics is almost entirely absent. In this book, R. Scott Appleby and Kathleen Sprows Cummings bring together American historians of race, politics, social theory, labor, and gender to address this lacuna, detailing in cogent and wide-ranging essays how Catholics negotiated gender relations, raised children, thought about war and peace, navigated the workplace and the marketplace, and imagined their place in the national myth of origins and ends. A long overdue corrective, Catholics in the American Century restores Catholicism to its rightful place in the American story.

Autor

R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation and "Church and Age Unite!": The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism. Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholic Identity in the Progressive Era.

Inhalt

Introduction: The American Catholic Century
by John T. McGreevyChapter 1. U.S. Catholics between Memory and Modernity: How Catholics Are American
by Robert A. OrsiChapter 2. Re-viewing the Twentieth Century through an American Catholic Lens
by Lizabeth CohenChapter 3. The Catholic Encounter with the 1960s
by Thomas J. Sugrue4. Crossing the Catholic Divide: Gender, Sexuality, and Historiography
by R. Marie Griffith5. The New Turn in Chicano/Mexicano History: Integrating Religious Belief and Practice
by David G. Gutiérrez6. The Catholic Moment in American Social Thought
by Wilfred M. McClayConclusion: The Forgotten Americans?
by R. Scott ApplebyNotes
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
• Reihe/Serie: Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: catholicism and gender, calothocism and children, war and peace, myth of origin, catholic history, catholic historiography
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-6520-6 / 0801465206
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6520-8 / 9780801465208