Chiniquy's Lincoln: Aiming Booth's Bullet at the Roman Catholic Church
This essay examines the creation of a devoutly anti-Catholic president by a former Catholic priest and its use by a once socially and politically significant movement: American anti-Catholicism. In his 1885 memoir, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, ex-Catholic priest Charles Chiniquy depicted himse...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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American Catholic Historical Society
[2016]
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American catholic studies
Année: 2016, Volume: 127, Numéro: 4, Pages: 23-47 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CG Christianisme et politique CH Christianisme et société KAH Époque moderne KBQ Amérique du Nord KDB Église catholique romaine |
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| Résumé: | This essay examines the creation of a devoutly anti-Catholic president by a former Catholic priest and its use by a once socially and politically significant movement: American anti-Catholicism. In his 1885 memoir, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, ex-Catholic priest Charles Chiniquy depicted himself as a confidant of President Abraham Lincoln; Chiniquy fashioned a president as opposed to Catholicism as he was to the spread of slavery. In so doing, Chiniquy formed a tale that has resonated with anti-Catholics from the Gilded Age well into the twenty-first century. I argue for increased attention to Chiniquy's resilient narrative as an illustration of both the enduring role of conspiracy rhetoric in anti-Catholicism and the ongoing rhetorical power of a distorted Abraham Lincoln in the American memory. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/acs.2016.0061 |