Catholicism and the shaping of nineteenth-centuryAmerica

Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America. Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America. Gjerde argues that Protestant-Catholic conflicts helped shape the nation, fosteringthe development of broader ideas about religious diversity in American society. Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America. Gjerde argues that Protestant-Catholic conflicts helped shape the nation, fostering the development of broader ideas about religious diversity in American society. Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. Whilereligious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other. In so doing, Gjerde reveals the ways inwhich America's encounter with Catholicism was much more than a story about American nativism. Nineteenth-century religious debates raised questions about the fundamental underpinnings of the American state and society: the shape of the antebellum market economy, gender roles in the American family, and the place of slavery were only a few of the issues engaged by Protestants and Catholics in a lively and enduring dialectic. While the question of the place of Catholics in America was left unresolved, the very debates surrounding this question generated multiple conceptions of American pluralism and American nationalidentity. “Jon Gjerde’s Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica is a perfectly titled book about how bumptious dialogues among America's variegated Catholics and their frequent, mostly Protestant critics became a major component in creating the modern American nation. The genius of Gjerde’s approach is to set American anti-Catholicism within a far broader contextof complex, interweaving dialogues about the kind of society America could and should become, especially in economics, church-state relations, and women's and men's roles, plus the deep arguments about slavery. Few histories have been both so American and so Catholic as is Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America. The book is a luminous testament to Jon Gjerde’s achievements as a historian and scholar.” —Jon Butler, Yale University “This book expands our understanding the motives of both Catholics and those Protestants who were hostile to Catholics. It demonstrates that the mid-19th century quarrel over Catholicism’s place in the constitutional and cultural order of the United States deeply influenced the theory and practice of nationhood well into the 20th century.”—David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley “A shrewd, thoughtful examination of how religious diversity—notably Catholic immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century—prompted fundamental, often still unresolved questions about the character of religious freedom and American nationalism.” —John T. McGreevy, I.A.O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History, University of Notre Dame INDICE: 1. Editor's preface S. Deborah Kang; 2. Introduction Jon Gjerde; 3. The Protestant conundrum Jon Gjerde; The Catholic conundrum Jon Gjerde; 4. Conversion and the West Jon Gjerde; 5. Schools and the state Jon Gjerde; 6. Protestant and Catholic critiques of family and women Jon Gjerde; 7. The Americaneconomy and social justice Jon Gjerde; 8. Epilogue S. Deborah Kang.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-27966-6
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 292
• Fecha Publicación: 23/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés