From Advent to Easter

The recent interest in reconstructing the history of spirituality and religious belief is nowhere more welcome than in the history of Roman Catholicism in the United States. From the very point of its emergence as a recognizable subdiscipline at the turn of the century and lasting into very recent scholarship, American Catholic history has been a relentlessly "topdown"affair. It focused on the leaders of the church-almost all of them white males-and on official church institutions. Episcopal biography was the preferred form and, as often as not, "progress" was the theme: the hierarchy established itself steadily along the advancing frontier; populations of clergy, religious, and laity all increased heroically; immigrants once despised were transformed into the American mainstream. There was even an inspirational final chapter to the tale, as one American Catholic finally grasped the brass ring of acceptance and moved into the White House. The story was a deliberately edifying one, but it was a story primarily for insiders. Perhaps for that reason alone, American Catholic history seemed to remain, as Leslie Tender has recently observed, "on the margins" of serious scholarly discourse

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• Christianity in the West, 1400-1700

  John Bossy•Christianity in the West, 1400-1700•1988

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• The radicalism of the American Revolution

  Gordon S Wood•The radicalism of the American…•1992

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• Awash in a Sea of Faith

  John P Roche, Jon Butler et al.•The New England Quarterly•1991

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• The John Carroll Papers

  Robert D Cro, Robert D Cross et al.•Journal of American History•1977

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• The Refinement of America

  Karen Halttunen, Richard L Bushman•Journal of American History•1993

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• On the Margins

  Open Access•Leslie Woodcock Tentler•American Quarterly•1993

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• The Madonna of 115th Street

  Joseph A Varacalli, Robert Anthony Orsi•Sociological Analysis•1988

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