• Kathleen Holscher
  • 2016-01-15

Religious Lessons

Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico

Author: Kathleen Holscher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0190462493

Category:

Page: 274

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Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v. Huff, a court case that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic sisters in public schools across New Mexico in 1948. Known nationally as the "Dixon case," after one of the towns involved, it was the most famous in a series of midcentury lawsuits, all targeting what opponents provocatively dubbed "captive schools." Spearheaded by Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the publicity campaign built around Zellers drew on centuries-old rhetoric of Catholic captivity to remind Americans about the threat of Catholic power in the post-War era, and the danger Catholic sisters dressed in full habits posed to American education. Americans at midcentury were reckoning with the U.S. Supreme Court's new mandate for a "wall of separation" between church and state. At no time since the nation's founding was the Establishment Clause studied so carefully by the nation's judiciary and its people. While Zellers never reached the Supreme Court, its details were familiar to hundreds of thousands of citizens who read about them in magazines and heard them discussed in church on Sunday mornings. For many Americans, Catholic and not, the scenario of sisters in veils teaching children embodied the high stakes of the era's church-state conflicts, and became an occasion to assess the implications of separation in their lives. Through close study of the Dixon case, Kathleen Holscher brings together the perspectives of legal advocacy groups, Catholic sisters, and citizens who cared about their schools. She argues that the captive school crusade was a transitional episode in the Protestant-Catholic conflicts that dominate American church-state history. Religious Lessons also goes beyond legal discourse to consider the interests of Americans--women religious included--who did not formally articulate convictions about the separation principle. The book emphasizes the everyday experiences, inside and outside classrooms, that defined the church-state relationship for these people, and that made these constitutional questions relevant to them.
  • Damon Mayrl
  • Social Science
  • 2016-08-30

Secular Conversions

Political Institutions and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800–2000

Author: Damon Mayrl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1316720705

Category: Social Science

Page: N.A

View: 1828

Why does secularization proceed differently in otherwise similar countries? Secular Conversions demonstrates that the institutional structure of the state is a key factor shaping the course of secularization. Drawing upon detailed historical analysis of religious education policy in the United States and Australia, Damon Mayrl details how administrative structures, legal procedures, and electoral systems have shaped political opportunities and even helped create constituencies for secular policies. In so doing, he also shows how a decentralized, readily accessible American state acts as an engine for religious conflict, encouraging religious differences to spill into law and politics at every turn. This book provides a vivid picture of how political conflicts interacted with the state over the long span of American and Australian history to shape religion's role in public life. Ultimately, it reveals that taken-for-granted political structures have powerfully shaped the fate of religion in modern societies.
  • Mary Navarre
  • History
  • 2015-08-12

Tapestry in Time

The Story of the Dominican Sisters, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1966-2012

Author: Mary Navarre

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ISBN: 0802872557

Category: History

Page: 320

View: 1701

Much has been written about women religious -- known as nuns or sisters -- since Vatican II, which brought about major changes to the Roman Catholic Church worldwide. In this book several Dominican Sisters tell with candor what it was really like to live the religious life in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during those years. Organized around the four basic principles of Dominican life -- prayer, study, common life, and service -- Tapestry in Time weaves together written and oral histories from the Sisters themselves to describe how the introduction of then-radical changes such as worship in the vernacular provided the thrill of something new and meaningful -- but also how the move toward inclusivity was met with challenges and opposition.
  • N.A
  • Indians of North America
  • 2013

New Mexico Historical Review

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Indians of North America

Page: N.A

View: 6910

  • Paul Harvey
  • History
  • 2012-09-01

Freedom's Coming

Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era

Author: Paul Harvey

Publisher: UNC Press Books

ISBN: 1469606429

Category: History

Page: 360

View: 5128

In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant expressive forms, and profound faith of believers in the region. Harvey explains how black and white religious folk within and outside of mainstream religious groups formed a southern "evangelical counterculture" of Christian interracialism that challenged the theologically grounded racism pervasive among white southerners and ultimately helped to end Jim Crow in the South. Moving from the folk theology of segregation to the women who organized the Montgomery bus boycott, from the hymn-inspired freedom songs of the 1960s to the influence of black Pentecostal preachers on Elvis Presley, Harvey deploys cultural history in fresh and innovative ways and fills a decades-old need for a comprehensive history of Protestant religion and its relationship to the central question of race in the South for the postbellum and twentieth-century period.
  • C. Peters
  • Political Science
  • 2012-09-17

Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience

Author: C. Peters

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137119284

Category: Political Science

Page: 230

View: 3080

Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.
  • Julia Alvarez
  • Fiction
  • 2010

In the Time of the Butterflies

Author: Julia Alvarez

Publisher: Algonquin Books

ISBN: 1565129768

Category: Fiction

Page: 339

View: 2082

A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep "accident."
  • Clifford Putney
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2010

Missionaries in Hawai'i

The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883

Author: Clifford Putney

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

ISBN: 9781558497351

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 218

View: 7958

An unvamished account of missionary life in Hawai'i
  • Sarah McFarland Taylor
  • Religion
  • 2009-06-30

Green Sisters

Author: Sarah McFarland Taylor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 0674027108

Category: Religion

Page: 384

View: 2603

Green sisters are environmentally active Catholic nuns working to heal the earth as they cultivate new forms of religious culture. Inviting us into their world, Taylor offers a firsthand understanding of the experiences of women whose lives bring together orthodoxy and activism, and whose lifestyle provides a compelling view of sustainable living.
  • N.A
  • Homosexuality
  • 1919

America

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Homosexuality

Page: N.A

View: 2083

  • Robert D. Putnam
  • History
  • 2016-03-29

Our Kids

The American Dream in Crisis

Author: Robert D. Putnam

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 1476769907

Category: History

Page: 400

View: 1334

A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. We Americans have always believed that those who have talent and try hard will succeed, but this central tenet of the American Dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was. In Our Kids, Robert Putnam offers a personal and authoritative look at this new American crisis, beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich, middle class, and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, brilliantly blended with the latest social-science research. “A truly masterful volume” (Financial Times), Our Kids provides a disturbing account of the American dream that is “thoughtful and persuasive” (The Economist). Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: “No one can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity” (The New York Times Book Review).
  • N.A
  • Political Science
  • 2011-08-12

The 9/11 Commission Report

Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Author: N.A

Publisher: Government Printing Office

ISBN: 0160891809

Category: Political Science

Page: 587

View: 566

This edition has been designated as the only official U.S. Government edition of the 9-11 Commission’s Final Report. It provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
  • John T. McGreevy
  • History
  • 2003

Catholicism and American Freedom

A History

Author: John T. McGreevy

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393047608

Category: History

Page: 431

View: 713

Explores the history of the Catholic Church in the political and intellectual development of the United States, discussing its impact on policies regarding slavery, public education, contraception, and the economy.
  • Charles George Herbermann
  • Catholic Church
  • 1913

The Catholic Encyclopedia

An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church

Author: Charles George Herbermann

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Catholic Church

Page: N.A

View: 8051

  • Charles Herbermann
  • 1908

The Catholic Encyclopedia

An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church

Author: Charles Herbermann

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category:

Page: N.A

View: 3643

  • Andrew Alphonsus MacErlean
  • Theology
  • 1912

The Catholic Encyclopedia

An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church

Author: Andrew Alphonsus MacErlean

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Theology

Page: N.A

View: 354

  • Kathleen Sprows Cummings,Timothy Matovina,Robert A. Orsi
  • Religion
  • 2017-10-31

Catholics in the Vatican II Era

Local Histories of a Global Event

Author: Kathleen Sprows Cummings,Timothy Matovina,Robert A. Orsi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1107141168

Category: Religion

Page: 340

View: 7334

Debates about the meaning of Vatican II and its role in modern Catholic and global history have largely focused on close theological study of its authoritative documents. This volume of newly commissioned essays contends that the historical significance of the council is best examined where these messages encountered the particular circumstances of the modern world: in local dioceses around the world. Each author examines the social, political, and domestic circumstances of a diocese, asking how they produced a distinctive lived experience of the Council and its aftermath. How did the Council change relationships and institutions? What was it like for laymen and women, for clergy, for nuns, for powerful first-world dioceses and for those in what we now know as the global south? A comparative reading of these chapters affords insights into these dimensions of Vatican II, and will spark a new generation of research into the history of 20th century Catholicism as both international and local.