American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination : Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion /

Carroll, Michael P., 1944-

American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination : Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion / Michael P. Carroll. - 1 online resource (240 pages): ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-214) and index.

How the Irish became Protestant in America -- Why the famine Irish became Catholic in America -- Italian American Catholicism : the standard story and its problems -- Were the Acadians/Cajuns really good Catholics? -- Hispanic Catholicism and the illusion of knowledge -- Protestantism and the academic study of American religion : an enduring alliance.

Open Access

9781421428314




Catholics--Historiography.--United States
Catholics--History.--United States


Electronic books.

BX1406.3 / .C375 2007

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