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Habits of Devotion Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America

O'Toole James M.
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780801472558
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, U, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
O'Toole James M.

Om bidragsyterne

James M. O'Toole is Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. He is also coeditor of Boston's Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor.

Habits of Devotion Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America

O'Toole James M.
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk
O'Toole James M.
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk
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<p><i>Habits of Devotion</i> is a significant contribution to the historiography of lay Roman Catholics in the United States.</p>

- John Thomas McGuire, H-Net Reviews, H-Catholic

<p>Everyday American Catholicism in the last century centered on ritual prayers, devotion to Mary, frequent confession, and regular reception of the Eucharist. This pattern changed drastically after Vatican II.... This volume deals with the practice of private devotion in a series of related essays by relying on letters, newspapers, memoirs, and church publications. Strongly encouraged in America during the first half of the century as a form of Catholic identity in a largely non-Catholic country, private devotion reached its peak during the 1940s and 1950s and declined rapidly thereafter.... The reasons for this dramatic shift are complex, and the contributors pass no judgments, seeking only to present evidence, but they do offer a fascinating glimpse into Catholicism as it once was and some speculations about where it may be going. For all libraries.</p>

Library Journal

<p>For those who think they remember what it meant to practice the Catholic faith on a day-to-day (or week-to-week) basis in the middle of the 20th century, <i>Habits of Devotion</i> provides a bracingly detailed jog (or challenge) to the memory. For those too young to remember, it offers ready access to the world of pre-Vatican II Catholicism.</p>

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<p>This important book focuses on religious practice in the mid-20th century (mid-1920s to mid-1970s), the decades before and after the pivotal Second Vatican Council. The essays in the book look at religious historical periods in terms of before-and-after, and do it very well. Catholic historians want to claim a usable past so that contemporary believers may ground their religious identity in living traditions. Confession is one of four practices of ordinary Catholics explored in <i>Habits of Devotion</i>, the others being prayer, Communion, and Marian devotion. The book is a long-view historical study written by four leading Catholic scholars and drawn from a rich array of private diaries and archival records kept by priests in New York, Boston, Milwaukee, and other major Catholic strongholds where the Irish, German, and Italians practiced their faith.... <i>Habits of Devotion</i> is a most readable and interesting book.</p>

- Claire H. Badaracco, America

"For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkable routines. Deep questions of theology usually meant little to them, but parishioners clung to deeply ingrained habits of devotion, both public and private. Particular devotions changed over time, waxing or waning in popularity, but the habits endured: going to mass on Sunday, saying prayers privately and teaching their children to do the same, filling their homes with crucifixes and other religious images, participating in special services, blending the church's calendar of feast and fast days with the secular cycles of work and citizenship, negotiating their conformity (or not) to the church's demands regarding sexual behavior and even diet.... It was religious practice, carried out in daily and weekly observance, that embodied their faith, more than any abstract set of dogmas."—from the Introduction In Habits of Devotion, four senior scholars take the measure of the central religious practices and devotions that by the middle of the twentieth century defined the "ordinary, week-to-week religion" of the majority of American Catholics. Their essays investigate prayer, devotion to Mary, confession, and the Eucharist as practiced by Catholics in the United States before and shortly after the Second Vatican Council.
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In Habits of Devotion, four senior scholars take the measure of the central religious practices and devotions that by the middle of the twentieth century defined the "ordinary, week-to-week religion" of the majority of American Catholics.
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All four essays in this fine collection focus on the great historical divide in twentieth century Catholicism: pre-Vatican II Catholicism as one tectonic plate of religious experience, and the half century since as another.
Les mer
A series edited by R. Scott Appleby
The Catholic community is integral to American history. The Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in 20th Century America is devoted to the study of the Catholic experience in America. A joint venture between The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Cornell University Press, the series welcomes books by senior and junior scholars that illuminate the interactions between Catholics and other Americans. Books in the series explore the ways in which Catholics and their church have responded to, shaped, and been influenced by developments in American society, culture, politics, and religion throughout the twentieth century. Series Editor R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and Director of the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He is the former director of The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Forthcoming volumes in the series include: All Good Books Are Catholic Books: The Cultural Work of U.S. Catholic Literature in the 20th Century by Una Cadegan
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<p><i>Habits of Devotion</i> is a significant contribution to the historiography of lay Roman Catholics in the United States.</p>

- John Thomas McGuire, H-Net Reviews, H-Catholic

<p>Everyday American Catholicism in the last century centered on ritual prayers, devotion to Mary, frequent confession, and regular reception of the Eucharist. This pattern changed drastically after Vatican II.... This volume deals with the practice of private devotion in a series of related essays by relying on letters, newspapers, memoirs, and church publications. Strongly encouraged in America during the first half of the century as a form of Catholic identity in a largely non-Catholic country, private devotion reached its peak during the 1940s and 1950s and declined rapidly thereafter.... The reasons for this dramatic shift are complex, and the contributors pass no judgments, seeking only to present evidence, but they do offer a fascinating glimpse into Catholicism as it once was and some speculations about where it may be going. For all libraries.</p>

Library Journal

<p>For those who think they remember what it meant to practice the Catholic faith on a day-to-day (or week-to-week) basis in the middle of the 20th century, <i>Habits of Devotion</i> provides a bracingly detailed jog (or challenge) to the memory. For those too young to remember, it offers ready access to the world of pre-Vatican II Catholicism.</p>

Choice

Se alle

<p>This important book focuses on religious practice in the mid-20th century (mid-1920s to mid-1970s), the decades before and after the pivotal Second Vatican Council. The essays in the book look at religious historical periods in terms of before-and-after, and do it very well. Catholic historians want to claim a usable past so that contemporary believers may ground their religious identity in living traditions. Confession is one of four practices of ordinary Catholics explored in <i>Habits of Devotion</i>, the others being prayer, Communion, and Marian devotion. The book is a long-view historical study written by four leading Catholic scholars and drawn from a rich array of private diaries and archival records kept by priests in New York, Boston, Milwaukee, and other major Catholic strongholds where the Irish, German, and Italians practiced their faith.... <i>Habits of Devotion</i> is a most readable and interesting book.</p>

- Claire H. Badaracco, America

"For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkable routines. Deep questions of theology usually meant little to them, but parishioners clung to deeply ingrained habits of devotion, both public and private. Particular devotions changed over time, waxing or waning in popularity, but the habits endured: going to mass on Sunday, saying prayers privately and teaching their children to do the same, filling their homes with crucifixes and other religious images, participating in special services, blending the church's calendar of feast and fast days with the secular cycles of work and citizenship, negotiating their conformity (or not) to the church's demands regarding sexual behavior and even diet.... It was religious practice, carried out in daily and weekly observance, that embodied their faith, more than any abstract set of dogmas."—from the Introduction In Habits of Devotion, four senior scholars take the measure of the central religious practices and devotions that by the middle of the twentieth century defined the "ordinary, week-to-week religion" of the majority of American Catholics. Their essays investigate prayer, devotion to Mary, confession, and the Eucharist as practiced by Catholics in the United States before and shortly after the Second Vatican Council.
Les mer
In Habits of Devotion, four senior scholars take the measure of the central religious practices and devotions that by the middle of the twentieth century defined the "ordinary, week-to-week religion" of the majority of American Catholics.
Les mer
All four essays in this fine collection focus on the great historical divide in twentieth century Catholicism: pre-Vatican II Catholicism as one tectonic plate of religious experience, and the half century since as another.
Les mer
A series edited by R. Scott Appleby
The Catholic community is integral to American history. The Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in 20th Century America is devoted to the study of the Catholic experience in America. A joint venture between The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Cornell University Press, the series welcomes books by senior and junior scholars that illuminate the interactions between Catholics and other Americans. Books in the series explore the ways in which Catholics and their church have responded to, shaped, and been influenced by developments in American society, culture, politics, and religion throughout the twentieth century. Series Editor R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and Director of the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He is the former director of The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Forthcoming volumes in the series include: All Good Books Are Catholic Books: The Cultural Work of U.S. Catholic Literature in the 20th Century by Una Cadegan
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801472558
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, U, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
O'Toole James M.

Om bidragsyterne

James M. O'Toole is Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. He is also coeditor of Boston's Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor.

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