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Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the
Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to
larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States Most histories
of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a
homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the
local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed
differently in different parts of the country. Such histories often
treat northeastern Catholicism, such as the Irish Catholicism of
Boston, as if it reflects the full history and experience of
Catholicism across the United States. The Making of American
Catholicism argues that regional and transnational relationships
have been central to the development of American Catholicism. The
American Catholic experience has diverged significantly among
regions; if we do not examine how it has taken shape in local
cultures, we miss a lot. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures
in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City,
the volume assesses the role of region in American Catholic
history, carefully exploring the development of American Catholic
cultures across the continental United States. Drawing on extensive
archival research, The Making of American Catholicism argues that
American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholics
creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in
particular American regional contexts. They emphasized notions of
republicanism, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and
gender, resulting in a unique form of Catholicism that dominates
the United States today. The book offers close attention to race
and racism in American Catholicism, including the historical
experiences of African American and Latinx Catholics as well as
Catholics of European descent.
Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the
Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to
larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States Most histories
of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a
homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the
local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed
differently in different parts of the country. Such histories often
treat northeastern Catholicism, such as the Irish Catholicism of
Boston, as if it reflects the full history and experience of
Catholicism across the United States. The Making of American
Catholicism argues that regional and transnational relationships
have been central to the development of American Catholicism. The
American Catholic experience has diverged significantly among
regions; if we do not examine how it has taken shape in local
cultures, we miss a lot. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures
in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City,
the volume assesses the role of region in American Catholic
history, carefully exploring the development of American Catholic
cultures across the continental United States. Drawing on extensive
archival research, The Making of American Catholicism argues that
American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholics
creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in
particular American regional contexts. They emphasized notions of
republicanism, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and
gender, resulting in a unique form of Catholicism that dominates
the United States today. The book offers close attention to race
and racism in American Catholicism, including the historical
experiences of African American and Latinx Catholics as well as
Catholics of European descent.
In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J.
Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and
other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon
responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's
European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval
people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal
institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on
Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced
Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in
religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century
Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of
racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's
Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and
the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated
from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late
twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel,
Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema
Santamaria, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda.
Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place
around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael
J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms
of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in
political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues
from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines
with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of
necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the
epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging
of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking
Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to
identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker,
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank
Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith.
In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J.
Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and
other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon
responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's
European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval
people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal
institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on
Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced
Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in
religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century
Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of
racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's
Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and
the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated
from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late
twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel,
Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema
Santamaria, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda.
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