If There Were One People
Francis Weninger and the Segregation of American Catholicism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517551 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Komline (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-246 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.2017.27.2.218 |
| OpenAlex | W2737797223 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This article uses the career of Francis Weninger-an Austrian Jesuit who traversed the United States preaching mostly to German audiences-to trace the development of Roman Catholic approaches to African American missions from the end of the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow. The study proceeds in two parts, each of which addresses three themes. The first half treats Weninger's work among American Germans, examining the historical context, mission strategy, and revivalistic activity involved in Weninger's work among his fellow immigrants. The second half details Weninger's evangelistic efforts among African Americans, reversing the order of these themes: first, it describes his activity, then, his strategy and motivation, and, finally, how Weninger's work fits into the broader context of Catholic race relations. The paper shows that the activism of Francis Weninger, the most significant Catholic advocate of missions to African Americans during the key time period in which the American Catholic church adopted an official policy of racial segregation, helped both to stimulate and to define later Roman Catholic initiatives to evangelize African Americans. Weninger modeled his approach to evangelizing African Americans directly on his work among German immigrants, encouraging both groups to establish their own ethnically and racially segregated parishes
African american · Ethnic group · Ethnology · German · Immigration · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Moravian Church and William Blake · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Strangers in the Land Patterns of American Nativism 1800-1925
The wages of whiteness
The Wages of Whiteness
The History of Black Catholics in the United States.
The Catholic Church and German Americans
Churches in Cultural Captivity
Rebuilding Zion
We Are the Revolutionists
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
The Highest Stage of White Supremacy
Northern Methodism and Reconstruction
Catholics and the Civil War
The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860
Northern Methodism and Reconstruction
Catholic Revivalism
Rebuilding Zion
Catholics in the Old South
Strange Career Critics
Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree
Desegregating the Altar
More Than the Woodward Thesis
We Are the Revolutionists
Jesuits for the Negro
Black and Catholic in Savannah, Georgia
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |