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

by Michael P. Carroll

Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a Protestant imagination that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis.

In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood through the Protestant tradition. Reexamining the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080188683X
• ISBN13: 9780801886836
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher