Research Catalog

Title

Catholicism and American freedom : a history / John T. McGreevy.

Author

McGreevy, John T.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, 2004, ©2003.

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Details

Description

431 pages : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm

Summary

This history of Catholicism and anti-Catholicism examines the profound role Catholicism has played in America's political and intellectual life on a variety of controversial issues. It also details how Catholics and non-Catholics reacted to people, ideas and events abroad throughout history.

Subject

• Catholic Church > United States > History
• Catholic Church
• Liberty > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History
• Christianity and politics > Catholic Church > History
• Christianity and politics > United States > History
• Christianity and politics
• Christianity and politics > Catholic Church
• Liberty > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
• Geschichte
• Katholische Kirche
• Religionsfreiheit
• United States > Church history
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Note

• "First published as a Norton paperback, 2004"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-406) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Eliot School rebellion, Boston, 1859 -- Education and the nineteenth-century Catholic revival -- Catholicism, slavery, and the cause of liberty -- Catholic freedom and civil war -- The nation -- The social question -- American freedom and Catholic power -- Democracy, religious freedom, and the nouvelle théologie -- Life (I) -- Life (II) -- A consistent ethic and sexual abuse.

ISBN

• 039332608X
• 9780393326086
• 0393047601 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 56760470
• SCSB-11202500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library