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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: “'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'.” Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing American Catholic History, 1
Margaret M. McGuinness and James T. Fisher
Part I. Beyond the Parish
1. Ambiguous Welcome: The Protestant Response to American Catholics, 21
Patrick Allitt
2. Latino Catholics in the Southwest, 43
Timothy Matovina
3. Left Coast Catholicism: The Tradition of Dissent in the California Church, 63
Jeffrey M. Burns
4. Strangers in Our Midst: Catholics in Rural America, 86
Jeffrey Marlett
5. “An Embassy to a Golf Course?” Conundrums on the Road to the United States’ Diplomatic Representation
to the Holy See, 1784–1984, 108
Roy Domenico
Part II. Engaging the World
6. American and Catholic and Literature: What Cultural History Helps Reveal, 133
Una M. Cadegan
7. Gospel Zeal: Missionary Citizens Overseas and Armchair Missionaries at Home; American Catholic Missions in China, 1900–1989, 150
Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P.
8. Northern Settlement Houses and Southern Welfare Centers: The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, 1910–1971, 173
Margaret M. McGuinness
9. Pulp Catholicism: Catholics in American Popular Film, 193
Anthony Burke Smith
Part III. Prophetic Catholicism
10. American Catholic Social Thought in the Twentieth Century, 219
Christopher Shannon
11. Catholics, Communism, and African Americans, 240
Cecilia A. Moore
12. Praying in the Public Square: Catholic Piety Meets Civil Rights, War, and Abortion, 264
James P. McCartin
13. The Resurrection Project of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism and Liberating Praxis, 284
Karen Mary Davalos
14. The Church and American Catholics, 304
Chester Gillis
Epilogue, 325
Jeffrey M. Burns
List of Contributors, 333
