Research Catalog

Title

The Cursillo movement in America catholics, protestants, and fourth-day spirituality / Kristy Nabhan-Warren.

Author

Nabhan-Warren, Kristy.

Publication

Chapel Hill, North Carolina The University of North Carolina Press 2013.

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Description

319 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity"--
• "The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as historical research, Nabhan-Warren shows the importance of Latino Catholics in the spread of the Cursillo movement. Cursillistas' stories, she argues, guide us toward a new understanding of contemporary Christian identities, inside and outside U.S. borders, and of the importance of globalizing American religious boundaries"--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Cursillo Movement in the United States
• HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
• RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
• United States > Church history > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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• committed to retain

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• Description based on print version record.

Contents

Cover Page; The Cursillo Movement in America; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface New Beginnings; Introduction Finding Christ and Community in America; Chapter One Los Orígenes Mallorquines; Chapter Two Coming to America; Chapter Three A Focus on Christian Experience; Chapter Four Blooming Where We're Planted; Chapter Five Teens Encounter Christ; Chapter Six Feeding Bodies and Souls; Chapter Seven Maverick yet Mainstream; Epilogue Cursillo Weekends, Fourth-Day Spirituality, and the Future; Appendix One Cursillo Chronology; Appendix Two Glossary; Notes; Index.

ISBN

• 9781469608037
• 1469608030
• 9781469607153 (hardback) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781469607160 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 1469607158 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

811602992

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library