American Catholicism Transformed: From the Cold War Through the Council

by Joseph P. Chinnici

Book Overview

Situating the church within the context of post-World War II globalization and the Cold War, American Catholicism Transformed draws on previously untapped archival sources to provide deep background to developments within the American Catholic Church in relationship to American society at large. Shaped by anti-communist sentiment and responsive to American cultural trends, the Catholic community adopted "strategies of domestic containment," stressing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197573002
• ISBN13: 9780197573006
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"