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This volume continues where Volumes I and II left off, but, unlike
these, it is organised according to key issues that cut across
nationalities, regions and generations. The concluding essay
synthesises the various interdisciplinary approaches that the book
presents.
This is the third volume in the groundbreaking study The Notre Dame
History of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S., continues the historical
investigation of the first two volumes, spanning the years 1965 to
the present. Unlike the two preceding volumes, whose articles are
arranged in terms of national origin (Mexican, Cuban, Puerto
Rican), the 11 essays in Hispanic Catholic Culture in the U.S. are
organized according to key issues that cut across nationalities,
regions, and generations.
Mexican Americans comprise the largest segment of Hispanics in the
United States. Within the American Catholic Church their legacy is
the longest, as is their struggle for full acceptance in the
institutional church. In this landmark volume, three well-known
historians examine this important, yet neglected religious history,
focusing on Mexican-American faith communities in the Southwest,
California, and the Midwest.
Catholicism has had a profound and lasting influence on the shape,
the meaning, and the course of American history. Now, in the first
book to reflect the new communal and social awakening which emerged
from Vatican Council II, here is a vibrant and compelling history
of the American Catholic experience--one that will surely become
the standard volume for this decade, and decades to come.
Spanning nearly five hundred years, the narrative eloquently
describes the Catholic experience from the arrival of Columbus and
the other European explorers to the present day. It sheds
fascinating new light on the work of the first vanguard of
missionaries, and on the religious struggles and tensions of the
early settlers. We watch Catholicism as it spread across the New
World, and see how it transformed--and was transformed by--the land
and its people. We follow the evolution of the urban ethnic
communities and learn about the vital contributions of the
immigrant church to Catholicism. And finally, we share in the
controversy of the modern church and the extraordinary changes in
the Catholic consciousness as it comes to grips with such
contemporary social and theological issues as war and peace and the
arms race, materialism, birth control and abortion, social justice,
civil rights, religious freedom, the ordination of women, and
married clergy.
"The American Catholic Experience" is not just the history of an
institution, but a chronicle of the dreams and aspirations, the
crises and faith, of a thriving, ever-evolving religious community.
It provides a penetrating and deeply thoughtful look at an
experience as diverse, as exciting, and as powerful as America
itself.
Jay P. Dolan's Catholic Revivalism: The American Experience,
1830-1900 details the history of the Catholic Church in America by
showing that revivalism, traditionally viewed as a Protestant
phenomenon, was also a central feature of Catholic life and
activity in the 19th century. To cope with the widespread social
disorganization caused by large numbers of Catholic immigrants, the
Church sponsored parish missions during which famous preachers gave
a series of emotional sermons aimed at calling sinners back to
their God and their Church. Dolan documents the extent of Catholic
revivalism, its European roots, and its success in reaching the
working class.
For more than two hundred years, writes eminent Catholic historian Jay P. Dolan, Catholics have struggled to reconcile two sets of values, as Americans and as Catholics. In this incisive, elegantly written account, Dolan explores how Catholics have met the challenges they have faced as New World followers of an Old World faith.
When Puerto Ricans and Cubans arrived in the United States both
groups presented to American Catholics the paradox of cultures
pervaded by Catholic symbols, attitudes, and traditions, but out of
touch with the values and priorities of the institutional Church.
Furthermore, both Cubans and Puerto Ricans tend to perceive
themselves as being in the U.S. provisionally and therefore insist
on holding on to their language and culture, while striving to
build communities of their own where these values will be
preserved. In this seminal volume Jaime R. Vidal and Lisandro Perez
present for the first time an in-depth historical analysis of the
Puerto Rican and Cuban-American Catholic experience, beginning with
their roots in the history of their homelands up to the closing of
Vatican II. In the first section of Puerto Ricans, Vidal discusses
the American Church's attempt to assimilate them into its structure
and style, which was at cross purposes with the Puerto Rican
"revolving door" migration trends that have constantly reinforced
their identity. Focusing on the Puerto Rican community in New York
City, Vidal demonstrates that the policies of the institutional
Church have made it difficult for them to find their place within
the U.S. Catholic structure. This has led to a certain amount of
marginalization of the Church within the Puerto Rican Community.
Lisandro Perez then discusses the Cuban-American Catholic
experience, especially the first waves of Cuban migration during
the 1960s. Since the first political exiles were from the upper and
middle classes of Cuban society, this led to expectations that the
Cubans would quickly blend into the white, middle-class American
community at both the religious and the social levels. Perez
analyzes the response of the Miami diocese to support the exiles
and concludes that the Cubans have not been fully assimilated into
the American Catholic Church because they view themselves as an
exiled society that hopes eventually to return to Cuba.
This is a historical analysis of the Puerto Rican and Cuban
American Catholic experience, beginning with their roots in the
history of their homelands up to the closing of Vatican II. These
people are difficult to assimilate into the Church as they do not
see thenselves as permanently in the US.
A view of urban Catholicism, The Immigrant Church focuses on the
people in the pews and furnishes a comparison of Irish and German
Catholic life in mid-nineteenth-century New York City. Nearly
one-half of the city's population in 1865 consisted of Irish and
German Catholics. Singling out three parishes (one Irish, one
German, and one a mixed group of Germans and Irish), Dolan examines
the role of religion in strengthening group life in these ethnic
communities, traces the development of the Catholic Church in the
city, and reveals the relationship between urban and church growth.
A view of urban Catholicism, The Immigrant Church focuses on the
people in the pews and furnishes a comparison of Irish and German
Catholic life in mid-nineteenth-century New York City. Nearly
one-half of the city's population in 1865 consisted of Irish and
German Catholics. Singling out three parishes (one Irish, one
German, and one a mixed group of Germans and Irish), Dolan examines
the role of religion in strengthening group life in these ethnic
communities, traces the development of the Catholic Church in the
city, and reveals the relationship between urban and church growth.
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