Washington and Rome
Subtitle: Catholicism in American culture
By: Michael Zöller ; translated by Steven Rendall and Albert Wimmer.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Notre Dame, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Catholic Church -- United States -- History.; United States -- Church history.
Description: "With its historical consciousness, emphasis on institutionalized structures, and combination of skepticism and assurance of grace, Catholicism seems to embody the very opposite of the American cultural principle.

Zoller here reexamines widely held notions about secularization and the role of religion in civil society to show how Catholicism was integrated into the Protestant, egalitarian, and populist American culture and to determine what distinguishes American Catholics from both European Catholics and other Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index.