Joseph A. Varacalli

The Catholic Experience in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume in the American Religious Experience series chronicles the history and present situation of the Catholic Church and the American Catholic subculture in the United States. Catholics have had a long history in America, and they have often had conflicting demands-should they remain loyal to the authority of the pope in Rome, or should they become more accommodating to American culture and society? The Catholic Experience in America combines historical, sociological, philosophical, and theological and religious scholarship to provide the reader with an overview of the general trends of American Catholic history, without over-simplifying the complex nature of that history. The Catholic Experience in America examines many different aspects of what it's like to be a Catholic in United States today, including: the diversity of Catholicism within the Church, including the issues of race, ethnicity, and gender; major turning points in American Catholic history, and how they have affected the everyday experience of American Catholics, such as immigration and nativism, the separation of church and state, and the election of John Kennedy as president; how the Church has handled such contemporary issues as homosexuality, birth control and abortion, and religious education; and the rise and fall of a Catholic subculture capable of providing a Catholic religious identity in America. The volume includes several appendices to further the readers understanding of the Catholic experience in America, including brief discussions of key documents and Church organizations, a glossary of terms, and basic demographic and statistical information.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780313325830
• ISBN-10: 0313325839
• Artikelnr.: 22206355

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Varacalli, Ph.D., is S.U.N.Y. Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Nassau Community College-S.U.N.Y.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Preface Part I Two Thousand Years and Counting: The
Catholic Experience Chapter 1 The Catholic Theological and Philosophical
Worldview Chapter 2 The Formal Organization of the Catholic Church Chapter
3 The Universal in the Particular: The Universal Catholic Church in Time
and Space Part II Catholicism and Civilization in the United States: A
Chronological Overview Chapter 4 Less Than Auspicious Beginnings: A
Minority Church in a Protestant Culture Chapter 5 "Brick by Brick and by
the Grace of God": The Construction of a Catholic Subculture Chapter 6
Contemporary Catholicism in the United States: A Case of Maturation,
Cleansing, and Revitalization or Decomposition, Domestication, and Internal
Secularization? Chapter 7 Too Little, Too Late? John Paul II, Benedict XVI,
and the Catholic Restorationist Movement Part III America's Best Kept
Secret: Catholic Social Thought Chapter 8 "Rome Has Spoken: Enough Said!"
Chapter 9 Four Responses of American Catholics to Catholic Doctrine:
Indifference, Rejection, Acceptance, or the Carving out of "La Via Media"
Part IV Diversity within Unity? The Social Geography of the Contemporary
American Catholic Community Chapter 10 Varying Ethnic Traditions Chapter 11
Differing Socioeconomic Class Backgrounds Chapter 12 Regional Variations
Chapter 13 Generational Changes Chapter 14 Across the Life Course Chapter
15 Women and the Church Chapter 16 The Issue of Race Chapter 17 Eastern
Catholicism Chapter 18 Religious Orders, Devotional Styles, and Other
Internal Sources of Catholic Differentiation Chapter 19 Differing
Theological and Philosophical Worldviews Part V Controversies and Turning
Points in American Catholic History Chapter 20 Historical Events before
Vatican II Chapter 21 Contemporary Issues after Vatican II Part VI What
Lies Ahead? Charting out Different Possible Scenarios for the Catholic
Church in the United States Postscript: Staying the Course with Benedict
XVI in a Post-John Paul II Church Appendix A Church Documents Discussed
Appendix B Glossary of Key Terms Used Appendix C Key Voluntary
Organizations in the Catholic Church of the United States Appendix D Basic
Demographic and Statistical Information about the Catholic Church
Institution and Community in the United States Appendix E Key Locations
(Museums, Colleges/Seminaries/ High Schools, Basilicas and Cathedrals,
Shrines, Monasteries, and Feasts/Festivals) Appendix F Archival
Depositories Appendix G Resource Guides on the Web Appendix H Timeline on
the Catholic Experience in the United States Bibliography Index About the
Author