American Catholics : An Encyclopedic History

Lawson, Russell M.

Bloomsbury Academic（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 448 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798216970156

Full Description

Understand the role, impact, and lasting legacy that Catholicism has had in North America from European contact to today.

Beginning with North America's contact with three imperialist powers (Spain, France, and England), this narrative account tells the story of how Catholicism became and continues to be part of the basic religious and cultural fiber of North America. The book follows a narrative chronological and thematic format, focusing on people, events, practices, social and cultural phenomena, and institutions. People discussed include the well-known, such as Christopher Columbus and Junipero Serra, and the not-so-well-known, such as Juniper Berthiaume and Jean Louis Berlandier.

With 32 chapters divided into 7 parts and all drawing on primary sources, this book engages with topics such as the overwhelming violence against Indigenous people and the religion's role in wars, politics, and modern-day culture.

Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part One: Catholics in Spanish Colonial America
Chapter One: Christopher Columbus
Chapter Two: Missionary Work during the Spanish Conquest and Colonization of America
Chapter Three: Franciscan Missionaries in Northern Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas
Chapter Four: The Missionaries of California
Chapter Five: The Decline of the Spanish Missions

Part Two: Catholics in French Colonial America
Chapter Six: First French Voyages to America
Chapter Seven: Franciscan Missionaries in New France to 1629
Chapter Eight: The Jesuits in New France
Chapter Nine: Jesuit Journeys
Chapter Ten: The Three Communities in the Service of Christ
Chapter Eleven: Missionaries in Louisiana
Chapter Twelve: Missionaries in the French-Canadian West

Part Three: Catholics in English Colonial America
Chapter Thirteen: War, Empire, and the British Colonies
Chapter Fourteen: The Catholic Experience in the Middle and Southern Colonies
Chapter Fifteen: Catholics during the American Revolution

Part Four: Toward a New Century
Chapter Sixteen: Catholic Missionaries in the New Republic
Chapter Seventeen: Catholics in Antebellum America

Part Five: Across the Continent
Chapter Eighteen: Missionaries in the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
Chapter Nineteen: Catholics in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Chapter Twenty: Catholics in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Chapter Twenty-One: Mexican Independence
Chapter Twenty-Two: Changes in the Church in Texas and the Southwest
Chapter Twenty-Three: California after the Mexican War
Chapter Twenty-Four: Catholics Northwest of the Mississippi River into Canada
Chapter Twenty-Five: The First Nations and Catholic Abuses

Part Six: The Civil War and After
Chapter Twenty-Six: Catholics during the Civil War
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Catholics after the Civil War
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Black Catholics
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Roman Catholics and the Perils of Democracy

Part Seven: Into the Twentieth Century
Chapter Thirty: The Modern Mentality
Chapter Thirty-One: Vatican II
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Great Commission Today

Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Author
Index