The Catholic Experience in America

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

Product details

• Authors: Joseph A. Varacalli
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2005
• EAN: 9780313325830
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32583-0
• No. of pages: 339
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: American Religious Experience; The American Religious Experience
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity