Catholicism category: 4667 books
Catholicism
The Story of Catholic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
The bestselling Catholicism has now been revised and updated for an eagerly-anticipated second edition. This lucid and accessible account explains how Roman Catholicism and its beliefs and practices came to be what they are. Renowned scholars Gerald O'Collins and Mario Farrugia move through history...
Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas
How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award
A timely study that puts current issues—religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics—in historical context.
The masthead of the Liberator, an anti-Catholic newspaper published in Magnolia, Arkansas,...
Why Catholicism Matters
How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In recent years the Catholic Church has gone through turbulent times with the uncovering of horrible abuse--abuse that persisted and which could have been prevented by many within the Church’s own ranks. As a result many positive aspects of what the Catholic Church teaches and practices are now...
The Everything Catholicism Book
Discover the Beliefs, Traditions, and Tenets of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
With over one billion members, Catholicism is one of the oldest - and largest - organized religions in the world. The Everything Catholicism Book is an easy-to-follow guide that helps you gain a better understanding of this complex religion. From the Seven Sacraments to basic Church doctrine, this...
Authentically Black and Truly Catholic
The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Explores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity
Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Great Migration, Chicago could have been called the Catholic Metropolis, with its skyline defined...
Frontiers of Faith
Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
American religious histories have often focused on the poisoned relations between Catholics and Protestants during the colonial period or on the virulent anti-Catholicism and nativism of the mid- to late nineteenth century. Between these periods, however, lies an important era of close, peaceable,...
Religious Liberties
Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing on literary and cultural representations of Catholics as a political force, Elizabeth Fenton argues that the U.S. perception...
by Julie Young, Father Eric Augenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Catholicism has been a prominent Christian sect for more than 1,700 years, and is professed by more than 1.2 billion people worldwide. People outside the faith who seek to understand it sometimes have trouble comprehending its structure, values, traditions, and beliefs. Idiot's Guides: Catholicism...
Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book is the first to analyze the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism. It explores how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community...
Latino Catholicism
Transformation in America's Largest Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates. Latino Catholicism provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today,...
Communicating Catholicism
Rhetoric, Ecclesial Leadership, and the Future of the American Roman Catholic Diocese
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Fr. Thomas Reese has observed that American Catholic dioceses are simultaneously mysterious and essential to the institutional health and vitality of American Catholicism. In recent years, as American Catholicism increasingly finds itself embroiled in scandal and conflict, this mysteriousness has...
Catholicism and the American Experience
Portsmouth Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
What does it mean to be Catholic in America? Catholicism and the American Experience features essays from Robert George, Peter Steinfels, George Weigel, E. J. Dionne, and many more, exploring the unique elements of American Catholicism. The volume highlights the proceedings of the fifth annual Portsmouth...
by Matteo Binasco
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763–1939 is a comprehensive reference volume, researched and compiled by Matteo Binasco, that introduces readers to the rich content of Roman archives and their vast potential for U.S. Catholic history in particular. In 2014, the University...
America's Church
The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is...