"Sprung Forth As If By Magic": Saint John the Evangelist Church as a Case-Study for a Spatial Analysis of Early National Catholic Philadelphia
In this essay I argue that an analysis of Catholicism in general, and Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Philadelphia in particular, accomplishes much of what those working to put the fields of geography and religious studies into conversation seek. Using Saint John's configures Catho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
2008
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American catholic studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 119, Issue: 4, Pages: 53-72 |
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| Summary: | In this essay I argue that an analysis of Catholicism in general, and Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Philadelphia in particular, accomplishes much of what those working to put the fields of geography and religious studies into conversation seek. Using Saint John's configures Catholicism in Philadelphia's urban ecology in the early part of the nineteenth century when the city was just beginning to be the commercial space it is today. The church offers a model of the development of the American church that takes aspects of its local and transnational scale and context into account. An analysis of Saint John's brings different constitutions of both the Catholic and the local population into sharper relief. It sheds light on the relationship between the social and the spatial, and allows us to compare theological tensions that undergirded conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. All of this illustrates how Catholic presence had a great effect on the urban landscape in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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