Jon Gjerde

Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other. In so doing, Gjerde reveals the ways in which America's encounter with Catholicism was much more than a story about American nativism. Nineteenth-century religious debates raised questions about the fundamental underpinnings of the American state and society: the shape of the antebellum market economy, gender roles in the American family, and the place of slavery were only a few of the issues engaged by Protestants and Catholics in a lively and enduring dialectic. While the question of the place of Catholics in America was left unresolved, the very debates surrounding this question generated multiple conceptions of American pluralism and American national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139200486
• Artikelnr.: 38275662

Autorenporträt

Jon Gjerde (February 25, 1953-October 26, 2008) was an American historian and the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he also served as chair of the History Department and Dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science. He is the author of the award-winning From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West and The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Editor's preface S. Deborah Kang
2. Introduction Jon Gjerde
3. The Protestant conundrum Jon Gjerde
The Catholic conundrum Jon Gjerde
4. Conversion and the West Jon Gjerde
5. Schools and the state Jon Gjerde
6. Protestant and Catholic critiques of family and women Jon Gjerde
7. The American economy and social justice Jon Gjerde
8. Epilogue S. Deborah Kang.