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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"anti-Catholicism"”.
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Anti-Catholicism in the Eighteenth Century Novel
Scholarship on anti-Catholicism in England abounds for the eras surrounding the eighteenth century, but for the eighteenth century itself, it remains limited. Of the research that does examine this period, the majority concerning literature pinpoints satire, poetry, sermons, and treatises as the …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
This paper seeks to demonstrate how anti-Catholicism, like other domestic issues such as race, economics, and politics, influenced U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Catholicism, the Roman Catholic Church, and monarchism/despotism were all seen …
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The Anti-Maynooth Campaign: A Study in Anti-Catholicism and Politics in the United Kingdom, 1851-69 (Protestantism, Ireland)
… This campaign was but one element in the anti-Catholic tradition of Victorian Britain. The anti-Maynooth campaign had both a parliamentary and an extra-parliamentary character, and printed sources form the basis for studying the two. Of particular value were the organs of sectarian public …
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Sectarianism in the north west of England, with special reference to class relationships in the city of Liverpool 1846 - 1914
… this thesis attempts to place working-class anti-catholicism. within a broader social context whilst retaining. sight of the intricacies of the subject itself. Chapter One describes the city of Liverpool in the nineteenth century, with a view to providing not just a backdrop to the thesis but …
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"""Horny -Handed Sons of Toil"": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880--1910"
… success on a new platform of white supremacy, anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism. The dissertation concludes by uncovering the roots of this party and the efforts of Catholic and African-American religious organizations to protest against it.
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Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
… between the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before the infamous Exclusion Crisis began. History has traditionally remembered her for being the wife of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and for bringing tea …
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The Convent: A Place of Refuge in Les Misérables and Histoire de ma vie
In the nineteenth century, amidst the rise of anti-Catholicism in the Western world, narratives served as a persuasive medium to influence the reading public. Anti-clerical sentiment was conveyed in various forms of text, often depicting the Catholic convent as a place of sinister confinement. This …
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
… the national Klan's bigoted ideology, such as anti-Catholicism and white supremacy, failed to inspire Williamson County members, many of whom were union coal miners. Klansmen raided bootlegging joints and moonshining stills and helped convict a number of liquor law violators, who had enjoyed …
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"""Lines of Spiritual Motion"": The Realization of American Catholic Fiction, 1845-1965"
… a middle-class American Catholic culture. While anti-Catholicism in the nineteenth century imagined Catholicism as antithetical to American citizenship, Catholic writers at the turn of the twentieth century tried to overcome divided loyalties and create a Catholicism that both accounted for and …
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Constraints on the mother foundresses : contrasts in Anglican and Roman Catholic religious headship in Victorian England
… their respective churches. Of these constraints, anti-Catholicism was the most important. It affected not only Roman Catholics, but also Anglo- Catholics and caused both groups of religious to lead what was, in many respects, a "hidden life". The religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience …
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Recovering From Modesty: A Response to theAlteration of An Old Master At Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
… the Catholic content of the collection with the anti-Catholicism of Fundamentalist tradition, and to maintain a standard of "modesty" appropriate to the perceived preferences of that tradition. Next, I explain why the retouching and the lack of public information about it are unfortunate, …
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The origin of the Polish National Catholic Church of St. Joseph County, Indiana
… which help explain this schism from Roman Catholicism; while the fourth traces the actual organization of the new church. Chapter V concludes the study by offering probable causes for this schism, and for the sake of simplicity, dividing these into the proximate and the remote, that is, …
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The Irish in Leicester, c.1841 to c.1891: a study of a minority community in the East Midlands
… prejudiced media and the mobilisation of popular anti-Catholicism; the social structure of the migrant and settled community (re: housing, health and poverty); occupational patterns in relation to class, gender, ethnicity and generation; the important but ignored contribution of Irish males and …
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The Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
This thesis explores coexistence, Catholicism’s survival and religiopolitical crises in London through a case study of the queen’s and embassy chapels. A central tension at the heart of early modern society was the imperative to uphold religious uniformity while living with confessional diversity …
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The Polish community in Scotland
… of the organised labour movement as well as anti-Catholicism and anti-alienism. By 1939 the members of the `economic emigration' had become `assimilated' into Scottish society. The defeat of Poland in September, 1939, by Germany and the Soviet Union caused Poles to escape to France where a …
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
… to conceal that an increasingly influential anti- Calvinist movement was seizing control of the licensing system and marginalizing Calvinist licensers in the 1620s, this chapter (along with chapter 7) addresses the broader methodological issues of how to weigh and evaluate various vantage …