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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"American Catholic Church"”.
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The American Catholic Church in the contemporary urban realm (Vatican II)
The role of the Catholic Church as an institution in the city is one which has not been successfully exploited in this country. The transformation of the church after the Second Vatican Council relied on a direct relationship between functionalism in architecture and liturgical reform. This …
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Cecilian reform in Baltimore, 1868-1903
… 1868-1903"" traces the reform of Roman Catholic liturgical music during one of its most controversial and least researched phases. Focusing on a single American city illustrates how a portion of the ethnically diverse, rapidly growing American Catholic church responded to the importation …
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William J. Kerby, John A. Ryan, and the Awakening of the Twentieth-Century American Catholic Social Conscience, 1899-1919 (Progressivism)
… activists of the early twentieth-century American Catholic Church. Whether demanding political concern on the part of Catholics, urging reform of the Church's charities, or bringing attention to the issue of socialism, their efforts to effect change were untiring. They helped create in the …
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Reflections of American Spirituality
… the chapters are the ties between the developing American Catholic Church and the changes in nineteenth and early twentieth century American culture, spirituality, and artistic taste as well as the business practices and successful marketing strategies employed by the Mayer and Zettler studios in …
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Jubilee Magazine and the Development of a Vatican II Ecclesiology
As the first national picture magazine for a Catholic audience, Jubilee--A Magazine of the Church and Her People, presented a new vision of the Church "in all her beauty: her intellectual eminence, her hard work, her charity, her spirit of true peace," and sought to show how "the Truth of Christ is …
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"""A sturdy native plant"": The American Catholic education system, the American Catholic philosophy of education, and American Catholic identity, 1919-1972"
For much of its existence, the American Catholic Church labored against native Protestant beliefs that its Roman connections hampered Catholic assimilation into American life. Millions of ethnic Catholics lived in a culture dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants who expected conformity to …
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Rebuilding the Catholic Brand in America: An Isocratean Perspective
This dissertation attempts to rebuild the American Catholic brand fractured by the priests' sexual abuse scandals, using Isocrates' theory of self-defense and self-representation as found in his Antidosis. The work conceptualizes the Catholic Church as a brand because it is a religious organization …