Making Catholic America (eBook)

Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

William S. Cossen (Autor)

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2023
222 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7101-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics took command of public life in the early twentieth century, claiming leadership in the growing American nation. They produced their own version of American history and claimed the power to remake the nation in their own image, arguing that they were the country's most faithful supporters of freedom and liberty and that their church had birthed American independence. Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing for itself a place in the national community and in profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world.

Autor

William S. Cossen is a historian specializing in the intersection of religion and nationalism. He is a faculty member of The Gwinett Schoool of Mathematics, Science, and Technology.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Catholic Work of Nation Building
1. Reconstructing the Catholic West: Catholics, Protestants, and the State on the Mission Battlegrounds
2. Catholics in the White City: The Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893
3. American Catholicism and Philippine Colonization: A Study in Religious Imperialism
4. Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church, Immigration, and the Forging of an American Catholicism
5. Toward Tri-Faith America: Catholics Confront the Politics of Anti-Catholicism
Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Catholics and American nationalism, Catholic-Protestant relations, religion andAmerican politics, religion in the Gilded Age, religion in the Progressive Era, religion and American empire, history of religion in the United States, Catholicism and American identity
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-7101-9 / 1501771019
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-7101-9 / 9781501771019