Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Jablonsky (Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 994-995 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz033 |
| OpenAlex | W2915511024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In her opening chapters, Maura Jane Farrelly depicts seventeenth-century Anglo-American Protestants as products of a century's worth of religious turmoil, an interim that provided the word liberty with a theological meaning referencing an individual's ability to access the will of God—and ultimately salvation—through Scripture alone, independent of Church-sanctioned authorities transcribing the Bible's lessons for the masses. In both the Old and New Worlds, the enemy of one's enemy could, at particular moments and places, become one's friend, thereby providing the potential to unite Calvinists of every persuasion with Anglicans and Quakers (and later Methodists, Baptists, and Unitarians) in their fear of Catholics and presumed popish plots. At the same time, Farrelly closely considers the Catholic experience in the New World, particularly in Maryland but also New York and Pennsylvania. Out of this topsy-turvy process arose a sense of what individual rights might mean, a perspective that would, over decades, provide American Catholics with a notion of “freedom” that did not always fit the Vatican's. The discussion in chapter 3, when a distinctive American identity must be forged amid a blood-shedding revolution, is the most important conversation in the book. Fancy-sounding words such as justice for all must ultimately come to mean something concrete, a process that facilitated an easing of discrimination against Catholics during the the early Republic
Economic Justice · Meaning (existential · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |