Catholicism and Historical Narrative - A Catholic Engagement With Historical Scholarship

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Kevin Schmiesing Klappentext In this volume, Catholicism and Historical Narrative: A Catholic Engagement with Historical Scholarship, Editor Kevin Schmiesing has gathered a distinguished group of scholars who, in various ways, call into question conventional story lines by highlighting previously neglected Catholic ideas and individuals. Built on ample evidence and employing keen insight, each essay is the result of cutting-edge research in fields ranging from historical research on Puritan New England and the antebellum South to the history of abortion to the twentieth-century papacy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Kevin SchmiesingChapter 1 : Audience, Method, Subject, and Faith: Dilemmas of the Catholic HistorianPaul RadzilowskiChapter 2: The Opening of the American Mind: Puritan Scholasticism at Harvard, 1636-1700Scott McDermottChapter 3: Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and the American Narrative Tom JodziewiczChapter 4: A Convenient Untruth: The Pro-Choice Invention of an Era of Abortion FreedomKeith CassidyChapter 5: Catholicism and Birth Control in American History: The Sanger-Ryan DebateClement MulloyChapter 6: "Where Religious Freedom Runs in the Streams": Catholic Expansion in Newport, Rhode Island in the Antebellum EraJohn F. QuinnChapter 7: The Power of Historical Narrative: Bishop John England, American Catholicism, and the National Jubilee of 1826Adam TateChapter 8: Valiant Women of Faith and Action: Finding Catholic Sisters in the Story of Nineteenth-Century AmericaMarynita AndersonChapter 9: Popes, Catholics, and Jews: E questa la maniera di fare storia?Ernest GrecoIndexAbout the Contributors

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Schmiesing
• Assisted by: Kevin Schmiesing (Editor), Schmiesing Kevin (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9780810888579
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-8857-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Catholic Social Thought; Catholic Social Thought (Numbe; Catholic Social Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christianity, History of Religion, United States of America, USA, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity