{"product_id":"the-imperial-church-9781501748813","title":"The Imperial Church","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a fascinating discussion of religion''s role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, \u003ci\u003eThe Imperial Church\u003c\/i\u003e undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration abo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoran takes up a task under which other historians of American Catholicism have long labored: turning American historical memory away from East Coast Colonial hegemony and, instead, calling attention to other parts of North America that came to have a formative influence on the American national psyche before and during the American Revolution. She argues that \"many American Protestants and Catholics turned to idealized visions of Catholic imperial pasts in order to talk about the past and future of U.S. empire\" (p. 20). Succeeding brilliantly in illustrating this sorely needed contribution to the field, Moran's landmark text is a must read for scholarly audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Moran has written a landmark book that opens a new era in the historiography of American religion and empir. To a field that long has been eager for new frames and methods of integrating Catholicism into American history—in such a way as to show Catholics as a constituent component of that history, rather than a community of individuals simply living within a Protestant civil society—\u003ci\u003eThe Imerial Church\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift.\u003c\/p\u003e * US Catholic Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Moran moves beyond examining United States Catholicism through the lens of what has been called the 'immigrant church,' as well the anti-Catholicism connected with this history, by focusing instead on what she calls the 'Imperial Church,' which is also an essential part of the American Catholic story. \u003ci\u003eThe Imperial Church\u003c\/i\u003e should be read by all those engaged in the study of US Catholicism, even if their own scholarly interests have focused on the immigrant church.\u003c\/p\u003e * Review for Religious *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoran has posed and answered an important historical question. In doing so, she not only demonstrates the plasticity of ideas about Catholicism in a truly revelatory fashion, but she also shows how empire drove religious changes in the American Midwest and elsewhere. This book will surprise readers and it will pique questions that strike at the core of our interpretations of the modern United States and American Catholic history.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Annals of Iowa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Katharine Moran reveals in her insightful and captivating new book, American Protestants not only thought \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e Catholics, they also thought \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e Catholicism as they sought to extend America's own power and influence across the continent and throughout the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e * Church History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond national Catholic narratives, The Imperial Church expands American Catholic history alongside American empire to the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-Cuban-American War. Moran challenges historians to rethink how American empire and religion are assumed to interact in this era.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Catholic Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Imperial Church challenges the notion of the 'Immigrant Church' because, as Moran explains, Catholicism was central to the American concept of empire at that time. By positing the centrality of Catholicism in US imperial rhetoric, Moran shows that Americans did not completely disavow their imperial predecessors (i.e., the Spanish) but rather saw themselves as sharing similar racial and civilizational projects diametrically opposite to the savagery of their imperial subjects (i.e., the Filipinos).\u003c\/p\u003e * Philippine Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Thinking with Catholicism, Empire, and History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Jacques Marquette in the Upper Midwest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Making a Founding Father out of a French Jesuit\u003cbr\u003e 2. Imagining Peaceful Conquest\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Franciscans in Southern California\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Parallel Histories out of Spanish Missions\u003cbr\u003e 4. Embodying Hospitality and Paternalism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Friars in the Philippines\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Revising and Rejecting Antifriarism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Envisioning Catholic Colonial Order\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Imperial Church Stories\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409343357271,"sku":"9781501748813","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501748813.jpg?v=1730506490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-imperial-church-9781501748813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}