Catholics in America: a history
Rez.: "Beginning with a narrative history of Catholics and Catholicism in America, Patrick Carey brings the discussion through to current times, addressing the recent problems in the Church, women's roles, and responses to terrorism and war. He then goes on to include brief biographical sk...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Lanham, MD
Rowman & Littlefield
[2008]
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Edition: | Updated ed. |
| Series/Journal: | A Sheed & Ward book
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| Summary: | Rez.: "Beginning with a narrative history of Catholics and Catholicism in America, Patrick Carey brings the discussion through to current times, addressing the recent problems in the Church, women's roles, and responses to terrorism and war. He then goes on to include brief biographical sketches of important figures in the Church, and offers a chronology of important events. The result is one of the most comprehensive histories of Catholics in America available."--BOOK JACKET. Colonial Catholicism, 1492-1840 -- A free church in a free state, 1776-1815 -- Internal conflicts, nativism, and immigrant Catholicism, 1815-1866 -- Reconstruction and expansion, 1866-1884 -- Americanism, 1884-1899 -- Catholicism in the progressive era, 1900-1920 -- The roaring twenties, the depression, and World War II, 1920-1945 -- Catholicism in the cold war, 1945-1965 -- Post-Vatican II Catholicism, 1965-1990 -- Troubled times, 1990-2003 -- Biographical sketches. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267] - 270) and index Originally publ. in hard cover by Praeger 2004 |
| ISBN: | 0742562336 |