Anti-Catholicism on Trial: The Catholic Response to Convent Narratives of the 1920s
The post-World War I period witnessed a revival of anti-Catholic convent narratives, a literary genre that has often been analyzed as a mostly antebellum phenomenon and through the lenses of gender and sexuality. This microhistory of the controversy surrounding one of these convent narrative authors...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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American catholic studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 132, Issue: 3, Pages: 53-77 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | The post-World War I period witnessed a revival of anti-Catholic convent narratives, a literary genre that has often been analyzed as a mostly antebellum phenomenon and through the lenses of gender and sexuality. This microhistory of the controversy surrounding one of these convent narrative authors and anti-Catholic speakers, Neva Miller Moss, centers on the Catholic response to anti-Catholicism. It allows scholars to see how Catholics of the early twentieth century fought for and gained public power in a period of immigration restriction and Klan resurgence. It also shows that they proved particularly adept at using the country's legal system to combat their opponents and provide a collective voice for Catholics who had become increasingly alarmed at the rising tides of nativism and anti-Catholicism. This study travels the anti-Catholic lecture circuit with Moss and accompanies increasingly confident lay Catholics as they navigated the judicial system and popular press in their frequently successful attempts to win public relations victories for their church and religious community. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/acs.2021.0046 |