Michael Pasquier

Fathers on the Frontier

French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Pasquier examines the "lived" religion of French missionaries in their daily encounters with anti-Catholic Protestants and anti-clerical Catholics on the American frontier. Focusing on the collective thoughts, feelings, and actions of priests who found themselves caught between the formal canonical standards of the church and the informal experiences of missionaries in American culture, Pasquier illuminates the historical intersection of American, French, and Roman interests in the United States. He finds that at no point did French missionaries engage more directly in distinctively American affairs than in the religious debates surrounding slavery, secessions, and civil war. These issues, he shows, compelled even the most politically aloof missionaries to step out of the shadow of Rome and stake their church on the side of the Confederacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780195372335
• ISBN-10: 0195372336
• Artikelnr.: 28440302

Autorenporträt

Michael Pasquier is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Louisiana State University

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction: Les Confrères et les Pères: Catholic Priests and Catholic History in the United States
1.: Missionary Formation and French Catholicism
2.: Missionary Experience and Frontier Catholicism
3.: : Missionary Revival and Transnational Catholicism
4.: : Missionary Politics and Ultramontane Catholicism
5.: Slavery, Civil War, and Southern Catholicism
Conclusion
Notes
Index