Tag: Catholics

December 29, 2024

Continental Achievement Roman Catholics in the United States – Revolution and Early Republic

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Free Download Kevin Starr, "Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States – Revolution and Early Republic"
English | ISBN: 1621642631 | 2020 | 330 pages | EPUB | 685 KB
In Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America , the first volume of Kevin Starr’s magisterial work on American Catholics, the narrative evoked Spain, France, and Recusant England as Europeans explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent. In Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States, the focus is on the participation of Catholics, alongside their Protestant and Jewish fellow citizens, in the Revolutionary War and the creation and development of the Republic.

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September 16, 2024

Mobilizing Youth Communists and Catholics in Interwar France

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Free Download Susan Whitney, "Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0822346133 | PDF | pages: 320 | 1.7 mb
In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney examines how youth moved to the forefront of French politics in the two decades following the First World War. In those years Communists and Catholics forged the most important youth movements in France. Focusing on the competing efforts of the two groups to mobilize the young and harness generational aspirations, Whitney traces the formative years of the Young Communists and the Young Christian Workers, including their female branches. She analyzes the ideologies of the movements, their major campaigns, their styles of political and religious engagement, and their approaches to male and female activism. As Whitney demonstrates, the recasting of gender roles lay at the heart of Catholic efforts and became crucial to Communist strategies in the mid-1930s.

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January 31, 2024

In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan Catholics and Muslims Working Together for the Common Good

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Free Download Chairman English Department George Dardess, "In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan: Catholics and Muslims Working Together for the Common Good"
English | ISBN: 1570759073 | 2011 | 205 pages | EPUB | 623 KB
A guide for Catholics and Muslims on how to reach greater understanding of the other’s tradition in order to work together to end social injustice

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January 5, 2024

Catholics’ Lost Cause South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861

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Free Download Adam L. Tate, "Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861"
English | ISBN: 0268104174 | 2018 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 911 KB + 2 MB
In the fascinating Catholics’ Lost Cause, Adam Tate argues that the primary goal of clerical leaders in antebellum South Carolina was to build a rapprochement between Catholicism and southern culture that would aid them in rooting Catholic institutions in the region in order to both sustain and spread their faith.

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