American Catholic history
Subtitle: a documentary reader
By: edited by Mark Massa with Catherine Osborne.
Contributors: Massa, Mark Stephen.; Osborne, Catherine.
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780814757451; 9780814757468
Subjects: Catholic Church -- United States -- History; United States -- Church history
Description: "American Catholic History makes available original documents produced in North America from the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century up to the present day. The texts have been selected to illuminate the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism...offers an overview of the American Catholic experience from both the top down of institutional and intellectual history as well as from the bottom up of social, deveotional, womens and ethnic histories"--from publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Frontiers and encounter; title: Inside/outside; title: Catholicism and the intellectual life; title: Politics; title: Worship & the spiritual life.