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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://lsulibraries.worldcat.org/oclc/317118138 Title: Fathers on the frontier : French missionaries and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 Author: Michael Pasquier Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN/ISSN: 9780195372335 0195372336 OCLC:317118138

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Fathers on the frontier : French missionaries and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870

Author:	Michael Pasquier
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:	Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats

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Genre/Form:	Biography
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Michael Pasquier Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780195372335 0195372336
OCLC Number:	317118138
Description:	ix, 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Introduction : les confrères et les pères in American Catholic history -- Missionary formation and French Catholicism -- Missionary experience and frontier Catholicism -- Missionary revival and transnational Catholicism -- Missionary politics and ultramontane Catholicism -- Slavery, Civil War, and southern Catholicism -- Conclusion.
Series Title:	Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility:	Michael Pasquier.
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"Pasquier's book is a high-quality study of French migr missionaries that should attract
readers of both religious history and the social sciences."--American Historical Review

"Histories of Catholicism in the United States have too often deferred unduly to its institutional forms or else understated their importance to U.S. Catholics in assuming that the 'real' story of American Catholicism lies always elsewhere than in church. Michael Pasquier's wonderfully subtle, fresh, and welcome achievement in Fathers on the Frontier is to present a lived history of Catholic institution-building in the United States. His portrait of the vividly 'unsettled, unscripted, and unofficial' lives of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French missionary priests who labored to create a settled, scripted, and official American Catholicism sets a promising course for new scholarship both in and beyond U.S. Catholic history."
--Tracy Fessenden, Author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

"French clergy were unquestionably the most influential priests during the expansion of U.S. Catholicism through the late eighteenth and well into the nineteenth centuries. Opening to the reader the daily lives of P res both in their native and adoptive homelands, Fathers on the Frontier mak Read more...

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