Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism Volume 28

by Jenny Franchot

Book Overview

The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520305663
• ISBN13: 9780520305663
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"