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Catholicism and Historical Narrative
A Catholic Engagement with Historical Scholarship
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2014
Summary
Stories about the past shape not only the way people think about history, but also the way they act in the present. Nowhere is this truer than in the area of religion, which has been and continues to be a powerful motivating force in the lives of billions around the globe. In this volume, Catholicism and Historical Narrative: A Catholic Engagement with Historical Scholarship, contributors explore the way stories are constructed and show how a focus on Catholic figures and concerns challenges common understandings of important historical episodes and eras.
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.
Students and scholars of religious history, Catholic historians, and anyone interested in the intersection of religion and history will all find here much to interest—and maybe even surprise—in the chapters' arguments concerning the deficiencies of history's dominant narratives. The volume's focus on the history of Catholics in the United States makes it essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of Catholicism in the American story.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8857-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8858-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
215
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access
1 Audience, Method, Subject, and Faith No access Pages 1 - 18
2 The Opening of the American Mind No access Pages 19 - 46
3 Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and the American Narrative No access Pages 47 - 72
4 A Convenient Untruth No access Pages 73 - 102
5 Catholicism and Birth Control in American History No access Pages 103 - 126
6 “Where Religious Freedom Runs in the Streams” No access Pages 127 - 150
7 The Power of Historical Narrative No access Pages 151 - 172
8 Valiant Women of Faith and Action No access Pages 173 - 188
9 Popes, Catholics, and Jews No access Pages 189 - 206
