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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Catholicism"”.
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The Hybrid Apostle: A Religious and Cultural Biography of Father Isaac Hecker's Early Life and the Origin of American Catholicism, 1837-1858
… hybrid religious identity led him to form "American Catholicism" through his experience in various political, religious, and political movements he participated in between 1837-1858. As the son of German immigrants, he grew up in New York City as a member of the working-class. He later …
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James Cagney, Outside/inside: Assimilation of a New York City star in 1930s Hollywood
… Cagney represents an inbetween type. His Irish-American catholicism marks him as subordinate to the W.A.S.P. mainstream and simultaneously positions him as a figure of influence over other New York ethnic newcomers (Italians, Jews, Poles, and Slavs). To star studies I combine close readings of …
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Tracing the Finger of God: The Role of Wonders In Catholic Spirituality In Early America
… among Catholics in the New World. In the American setting, wonders were not only supportable, but served a practical function: they assured Catholics of divine approbation in the midst of criticism and conflict. The dissertation contextualizes, moreover, early American Catholics' belief in …
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Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840-1896
Following their conversions to Roman Catholicism in the mid-1840s, Orestes Augustus Brownson of Boston and Anna Hanson Dorsey of Baltimore joined the leading figures of a nascent American Catholic literary culture in search of suitable forms through which to share its experiences and its truths …
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Theocratic governance and the divergent Catholic cultural groups in the USA
… in the Vatican, (b) to explore the nature of the American Catholic cultural environment, (c) to analyze the types of relationships between the divergent American Catholic subcultures, and (d) to establish ways in which ecclesiastical authorities in the Vatican govern the American Catholic cultural …
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Baptized by blackness: manumittive baptisms in antebellum Georgia & Black Catholicism's sacramental subversion of an antiblack world
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms