John T Mcgreevy: 5 books

Book cover of Parish Boundaries

Parish Boundaries

The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

by John T. McGreevy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016

Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John McGreevy...
Book cover of Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
by John T. McGreevy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004

"[McGreevy] has written the best intellectual history of the Catholic Church in America."—Commonweal For two centuries, Catholicism has played a profound and largely unexamined role in America's political and intellectual life. Emphasizing the communal over the individual, protections...
Book cover of American Catholics, American Culture

American Catholics, American Culture

Tradition and Resistance

by Peter Steinfels, Robert Royal, J Bottum
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Book cover of American Jesuits and the World

American Jesuits and the World

How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

by John T. McGreevy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard...
Book cover of Le relazioni tra Stati Uniti e Italia nel periodo di Roma capitale
by Leonardo Buonomo, Valerio Massimo De Angelis, Marco De Nicolò
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2016

Questo è il terzo volume di un lavoro di ricerca collettiva iniziata otto anni fa dal Centro di Studi Americani. Dopo la pubblicazione dei volumi relativi alla Repubblica Romana e all'Unità d'Italia si presenta qui una collezione di saggi sugli Stati Uniti e la questione romana. Lo scopo è ancora...
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