Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- 1 American Catholicism’s Early Foundations
- 2 The Immigrant Church, 1820–1908
- 3 The Catholic Century
- Part II Catholic Life and Culture
- Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
- References
1 - American Catholicism’s Early Foundations
from Part I - Historical Overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- 1 American Catholicism’s Early Foundations
- 2 The Immigrant Church, 1820–1908
- 3 The Catholic Century
- Part II Catholic Life and Culture
- Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
Catholics were in the United States from the very beginning. Some were the descendants of people who had migrated to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – primarily from England, but to a lesser extent from Ireland, Germany, and Portugal. Others were the descendants of people who had migrated to Florida and Louisiana from Spain, France, and Quebec during those same centuries.
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism , pp. 13 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Carey, Patrick W. People, Priests, and Prelates: Ecclesiastical Democracy and the Tensions of Trusteeism. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Clark, Emily. Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Farrelly, Maura Jane. Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Pasquier, Michael. Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789–1870. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Starr, Kevin. Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016.Google Scholar