Research Catalog

Title

Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis / John T. McGreevy.

Author

McGreevy, John T.

Publication

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Independent publishers since 1923, [2022]

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Details

Description

xiv, 513 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between 'progress' and 'tradition' in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church's complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism. McGreevy documents the hopes and ambitions of European missionaries building churches and schools in all corners of the world, African Catholics fighting for political (and religious) independence, Latin American Catholics attracted to a theology of liberation, and Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic governments. He includes a vast cast of riveting characters, known and unknown, including the Mexican revolutionary Fr. Servando Teresa de Mier; Daniel O'Connell, hero of Irish emancipation; Sr. Josephine Bakhita, a formerly enslaved Sudanese nun; Chinese statesman Ma Xiaobang; French philosopher and reformer Jacques Maritain; German Jewish philosopher and convert, Edith Stein; John Paul II, Polish pope and opponent of communism; Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian founder of liberation theology; and French American patron of modern art, Dominique de Menil. Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details currents of reform within the Church as well as movements protective of traditional customs and beliefs. Conflicts with political leaders and a devotional revival in the nineteenth century, the experiences of decolonization after World War II and the Second Vatican Council in the twentieth century, and the trauma of clerical sexual abuse in the twenty-first all demonstrate how religion shapes our modern world. Finally, McGreevy addresses the challenges faced by Pope Francis as he struggles to unite the over one billion members of the world's largest religious community"--

Subject

• Catholic Church > History > Modern period, 1500-
• Catholic Church
• Since 1500
• Catholics > History > Modern period, 1500-

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-493) and index.

Contents

Part I. Revolution and revival, 1789-1870. Revolution: In France and around the world ; Revival: Devotions, miracles, and the papacy ; Democracy: How Catholicism fostered and inhibited democratic revolutions ; Triumph: 1848, Vatican I and the consolidation of the Catholic revival -- Part II. The milieu and its discontents, 1870-1962. Milieu: Why nationalists attacked Catholics and how Catholics responded ; Empire: Missionaries, converts, and imperialism ; Nation: A Catholic nationalism? ; Crisis: The politics of the 1930s ; Ressourcement: Opening the milieu ; Decolonization: A Catholic global south -- Part III. Vatican II and its aftermath, 1962-2021. Vatican II: A church transformed ; Liberation: Freedom and human rights in the 1970s ; Exodus: Sex, gender, and turmoil ; Charisma: John Paul II and the end of the Cold War ; Sexual abuse (and its cover-up) -- Conclusion: Pope Francis and beyond.

Call Number

JFE 22-4225

ISBN

• 9781324003885
• 132400388X

LCCN

• 2022030773
• 40031360943

OCLC

1294287494

Author

McGreevy, John T., author.

Title

Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis / John T. McGreevy.

Publisher

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Independent publishers since 1923, [2022]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-493) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1500

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781324003892

Other Standard Identifier

40031360943

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4225