Shaping American Catholicism: Maryland and New York, 1805-1915

by Robert Emmett Curran

Distinguished historian Robert Emmett Curran presents an informed and balanced study of the American Catholic Church's experience in its two most important regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Spanning the years 1805 to 1915, Curran highlights the rivalry and tension between the northeast and southeast, specifically New York and Maryland, in assuming leadership of the church in America and the Society of Jesus. Slavery, polity, religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813219671
• ISBN13: 9780813219677
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"