Catholics in the Old South
Author | : Randall M. Miller |
Publisher | : Sweet & Maxwell |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Catholic Church |
ISBN | : 9780865546769 |
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Author | : Randall M. Miller |
Publisher | : Sweet & Maxwell |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Catholic Church |
ISBN | : 9780865546769 |
Author | : Andrew Henry Stern |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817317740 |
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South. In sharp contrast to many long-standing presumptions about mistrust or animosity between these two groups, this study proposes that Catholic and Protestant interactions in the South were characterized more by cooperation than by conflict. Andrew H. M. Stern argues that Catholics worked to integrate themselves into southern society without compromising their religious beliefs and that many Protestants accepted and supported them. Catholic leaders demonstrated the compatibility of Catholicism with American ideals and institutions, and Protestants recognized Catholics as useful citizens, true Americans, and loyal southerners, in particular citing their support for slavery and their hatred of abolitionism. Mutual assistance between the two groups proved most clear in shared public spaces, with Catholics and Protestants participating in each other’s institutions and funding each other’s enterprises. Catholics and Protestants worshipped in each other’s churches, studied in each other’s schools, and recovered or died in each other’s hospitals. In many histories of southern religion, typically thought of as Protestant, Catholicism tends to be absent. Likewise, in studies of American Catholicism, Catholic relationships with Protestants, including southern Protestants, are rarely discussed. Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross is the first book to demonstrate in detail the ways in which many Protestants actively fostered the growth of American Catholicism. Stern complicates the dominant historical view of interreligious animosity and offers an unexpected model of religious pluralism that helped to shape southern culture as we know it today.
Author | : Gracjan Anthony Kraszewski |
Publisher | : Civil War Era in the South |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781606353950 |
How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitments in the recently formed Confederacy? How did they balance being both Catholic and Confederate? How is the Southern Catholic Civil War experience similar or dissimilar to the Southern Protestant Civil War experience? What new insights might this experience provide regarding Civil War religious history, the history of Catholicism in America, 19th-century America, and Southern history in general? For the majority of Southern Catholics, religion and politics were not a point of tension. Devout Catholics were also devoted Confederates, including nuns who served as nurses; their deep involvement in the Confederate cause as medics confirms the all-encompassing nature of Catholic involvement in the Confederacy, a fact greatly underplayed by scholars of Civil war religion and American Catholicism. Kraszewski argues against an "Americanization" of Catholics in the South and instead coins the term "Confederatization" to describe the process by which Catholics made themselves virtually indistinguishable from their Protestant neighbors. The religious history of the South has been primarily Protestant. Catholic Confederates simultaneously fills a gap in Civil War religious scholarship and in American Catholic literature by bringing to light the deep impact Catholicism has had on Southern society even in the very heart of the Bible Belt.
Author | : Randall M. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Catholics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Fredrick Haddox |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780823225217 |
Looking at the works of diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, this book focuses on the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has signified within southern literature and culture. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of American and southern literary and cultural history.
Author | : Joel S. Panzer |
Publisher | : Saint Pauls/Alba House |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Papacy |
ISBN | : 9780818907647 |
This book reveals how the Church has in the past and still does speak up decisively to halt the infamous trade in human flesh.
Author | : Peter R. D'Agostino |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780807855157 |
For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from Italian state collections and newly opened Vatican archives, Peter D'Agostino paints a starkly different portrait.
Author | : Cyprian Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780824550080 |
Author | : Kathleen Sprows Cummings |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019-02-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1469649489 |
What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally about holiness, it is never only about holiness, reveals Kathleen Sprows Cummings in this panoramic, passionate chronicle of American sanctity. Catholics had another reason for petitioning the Vatican to acknowledge an American holy hero. A home-grown saint would serve as a mediator between heaven and earth, yes, but also between Catholicism and American culture. Throughout much of U.S. history, the making of a saint was also about the ways in which the members of a minority religious group defined, defended, and celebrated their identities as Americans. Their fascinatingly diverse causes for canonization—from Kateri Tekakwitha and Elizabeth Ann Seton to many others that are failed, forgotten, or still under way—represented evolving national values as Catholics made themselves at home. Cummings's vision of American sanctity shows just how much Catholics had at stake in cultivating devotion to men and women perched at the nexus of holiness and American history—until they finally felt little need to prove that they belonged.
Author | : John T. McGreevy |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1998-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226558745 |
Steeples topped by crosses still dominate neighborhood skylines in many American cities, silent markers of local worlds rarely examined by historians. In Parish Boundaries, John McGreevy chronicles the history of these Catholic parishes and connects their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of American race relations in the twentieth century.