Catholicism category: 4667 books
by Michael Coren
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
From the author of the bestselling Why Catholics Are Right, a perfectly timed book on the new Vatican -- where it is, where it needs to go, and why it is more relevant than ever.
When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, became Pope Francis in March 2013, there were almost...
by Lawrence S. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth...
Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism
Evangelii Gaudium and the Papal Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism is the first and most in-depth study of the most important teaching document from Pope Francis to date: Evangelii Gaudium. It explores the key components of his vision and agenda for the church - ecclesiological, social and dialogical - drawing together a...
Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism
A Heart in Hiding
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.
The Everything Guide to Catholicism
A complete introduction to the beliefs, traditions, and tenets of the Catholic Church from past to present
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Why do Catholics confess their sins? What does Jesus' second coming mean? How does someone, such as Mother Teresa, become a saint?
This guide answers these questions and more. This resource addresses the teachings, tradition, history, and theology of the Catholic Church. With this guide, you'll...
The American Catholic Experience
A History from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Catholicism has had a profound and lasting influence on the shape, the meaning, and the course of American history. Now, in the first book to reflect the new communal and social awakening which emerged from Vatican Council II, here is a vibrant and compelling history of the American Catholic experience—one...
Separatism and Subculture
Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and solidarity, and she delineates the social and cultural...
The South's Tolerable Alien
Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post--World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the...
by John D. Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"A landmark achievement that will no doubt be cited again and again for years to come. It is a thoroughly-researched and authoritative work."--Allen J. Christenson, author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community "While this book explains what brought about the Maya uprisings...
Latino Catholicism (Abridged version)
Transformation in America's Largest Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this abridged version made available in both English and Spanish, renowned author and Notre Dame scholar Timothy Matovina provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the 16th century to today and offers the most in-depth examination to date of the significant...
Occasions of Faith
An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics form the foundation of this consummate anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Lawrence Taylor's twenty years of field work in Banagh in south-west Donegal have yielded rich ethnographic material that is illuminated by wide-ranging...
The Irony of Modern Catholic History
How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph...
Catholicism and Religious Freedom
Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching. In this timely new edited collection, Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty, Kenneth...
Católicos
Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Chicano Catholicism—both as a popular religion and a foundation for community organizing—has, over the past century, inspired Chicano resistance to external forces of oppression and discrimination including from other non-Mexican Catholics and even the institutionalized church. Chicano Catholics...