American Catholic lay groups and transatlantic social reform in the progressive era
By: Deirdre M. Moloney.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Catholics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Catholics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Laity -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century.; Laity -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.; Christian sociology -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.; Christian sociology -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.; Christian sociology -- United States -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.; Christian sociology -- United States -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.; Progressivism (United States politics); United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Other titles: American Catholic lay groups & transatlantic social reform in the progressive era
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1; title: Celebrating an American Catholic Legacy 13; title: 2; title: Combating "Whisky's Work":; title: Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Catholic Temperance Reform 43; title: 3; title: The Friendly Hand and the Helping Purse:; title: Catholic Immigration and Rural Colonization Programs 69; title: 4; title: Poverty and Proselytizers:; title: Lay Catholic Charitable and Settlement Work 117; title: 5; title: Promoting the Maternal over Material, Ideal over Idle:; title: The Emergence of Catholic Women's Groups 167; title: Conclusion 205; title: Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index 259.