In Search of an American Catholicism A History of Religion and Culture in Tension

Name: In Search of an American Catholicism A History of Religion and Culture in Tension
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ISBN: 9780195168853

ISBN-10: 0195168852

ISBN-13: 9780195168853

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jay P. Dolan

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For more than two hundred years American Catholics have struggled to reconcile their national and religious values. In this incisive and accessible account, distinguished Catholic historian Jay P. Dolan explores the way American Catholicism has taken its distinctive shape and follows how Catholics have met the challenges they have faced as New World followers of an Old World faith. Dolan argues that the ideals of democracy, and American culture in general, have deeply shaped Catholicism in the United States as far back as 1789, when the nation's first bishop was elected by the clergy (and the pope accepted their choice.) Dolan looks at the tension between democratic values and Catholic…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.31" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.572



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Catholicism in an Age of Democracy



The Romanization of Catholicism



In Search of an American Catholicism



Competing Visions



An American Religion and a Roman Church, 1960-2001


Notes


Index