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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Pasquier |
| 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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<br>"Pasquier's book is a high-quality study of French migr missionaries that should attract <br>readers of both religious history and the social sciences."--American Historical Review<p><br>"Michael Pasquier's work immeasurably enriches our understanding of southern, and American, religious history, by placing the Catholic priesthood at the center rather than the periphery, mining heretofore little-known sources, and showing the centripetal force exercised by slavery even on religious institutions ostensibly controlled outside the region. More successfully than any other scholar, Pasquier has put Catholicism as a central actor in the religious history of the pre-Civil War South." <br>--Paul Harvey, author of Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era<p><br>"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." <br>--Tracy Fessenden, Author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature <br><p><br>"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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- Catholic Church -- Missions -- United States.
- French -- United States.
- Missions -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Church history.
- Catholic Church -- United States -- History.
- Missionaries -- United States -- Biography.
- Katholische Kirche
- Mission
- USA
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by paul.commonplaces updated 2011-07-25