Fathers on the frontier
Subtitle: French missionaries and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870
By: Michael Pasquier.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780195372335
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Missions -- United States; Catholic Church -- United States -- History; French -- United States; Missions -- United States -- History; Missionaries -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Church history
Genres: Biography
Description: Michael Pasquier examines the 'lived' religion of French missionaries in their daily encounters with anti-Catholic Protestants and anti-clerical Catholics on the American frontier.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Les confrères et les pères : Catholic priests and Catholic history in the United States; title: Missionary formation and French Catholicism; title: Missionary experience and frontier Catholicism; title: Missionary revival and transnational Catholicism; title: Missionary politics and ultramontane Catholicism; title: Slavery, Civil War, and southern Catholicism; title: Conclusion.