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Author |
: Michael P. Carroll |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2007-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080188683X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801886836 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination by : Michael P. Carroll
Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a "Protestant imagination" that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis. In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood through the Protestant tradition. Reexamining the experience of Catholicism among Irish immigrants, Italian Americans, Acadians and Cajuns, and Hispanics, Carroll debunks the myths that have informed much of this history. Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.
Author |
: Michael P. Carroll |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2007-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421401997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421401991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination by : Michael P. Carroll
Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a "Protestant imagination" that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis. In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood through the Protestant tradition. Reexamining the experience of Catholicism among Irish immigrants, Italian Americans, Acadians and Cajuns, and Hispanics, Carroll debunks the myths that have informed much of this history. Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.
Author |
: Andrew Greeley |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520232046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520232044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Catholic Imagination by : Andrew Greeley
"Greeley has written a lively, controversial and stimulating book in which he describes a Catholic imagination which is different from (not better or worse than) a Protestant imagination. Going beyond his own position, I believe Protestants have much to learn not just about the Catholic imagination but from it as he describes it."—Robert Bellah, coauthor of Habits of the Heart "Andrew Greeley is the most vivid sociological writer of our time. By studying artists and artisans directly, he brings David Tracy's theory of religious imagination to life. The survey data show that ordinary people have imaginations too, and that the lay person's imagination is also framed by religious tradition. This book is a tour de force."—Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley
Author |
: Michael P. Carroll |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1421428318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781421428314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination by : Michael P. Carroll
Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a "Protestant imagination" that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis.In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood through the Protestant tradition. Reexamining the experience of Catholicism among Irish immigrants, Italian Americans, Acadians and Cajuns, and Hispanics, Carroll debunks the myths that have informed much of this history.Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.
Author |
: Gary Scott Smith |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2011-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199830701 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199830703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heaven in the American Imagination by : Gary Scott Smith
Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.
Author |
: Elizabeth Fenton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2011-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199838394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199838399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Liberties by : Elizabeth Fenton
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing on literary and cultural representations of Catholics as a political force, Elizabeth Fenton argues that the U.S. perception of religious freedom grew partly, and paradoxically, out of a sometimes virulent but often genteel anti-Catholicism. Depictions of Catholicism's imagined intolerance and cruelty allowed writers time and again to depict their nation as tolerant and free. As Religious Liberties shows, anti-Catholic sentiment particularly shaped U.S. conceptions of pluralism and its relationship to issues as diverse as religious privacy, territorial expansion, female citizenship, political representation, chattel slavery, and governmental partisanship. Drawing on a wide range of materials--from the Federalist Papers to antebellum biographies of Toussaint Louverture; from nativist treatises to Margaret Fuller's journalism; from convent exposés to novels by Catharine Sedgwick, Augusta J. Evans, Nathanial Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain--Fenton's study excavates the influence of anti-Catholic sentiment on both the liberal tradition and early U.S. culture more generally. In concert, these texts suggest how the prejudice against Catholicism facilitated an alignment of U.S. nationalism with Protestantism, thus ensuring the mutual dependence, rather than the putative "separation" of church and state.
Author |
: Eleanor Heartney |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2018-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0998956856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780998956855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postmodern Heretics by : Eleanor Heartney
This redesigned, re-edited, illustrated new edition of the classic study "Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art" challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship of contemporary art and religion. It explores the Catholic roots of controversial artists and the impact of Catholicism on the 1990s Culture Wars.
Author |
: Farrell O'Gorman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0268102171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780268102173 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination by : Farrell O'Gorman
O'Gorman presents a study of the role of Catholicism in American Gothic literature, exploring its influence as a religion without a country and its ability to permeate borders and American traditions.
Author |
: K. Healan Gaston |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2019-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226663999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022666399X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Judeo-Christian America by : K. Healan Gaston
“Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized.
Author |
: Ross Labrie |
Publisher |
: University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826211100 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826211101 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Catholic Imagination in American Literature by : Ross Labrie
A concluding chapter examines the significance of the corpus of Catholic American writing in the years 1940 to 1980, considering it parallel in substance to the body of Jewish American literature of the same period.