American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination
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American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination

Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion

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eBook - ePub

American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination

Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion

About this book

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 experience of Catholicism among Irish immigrants, Italian Americans, Acadians and Cajuns, and Hispanics, Carroll debunks the myths that have informed much of this history.

Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 How the Irish Became Protestant in America
  8. 2 Why the Famine Irish Became Catholic in America
  9. 3 Italian American Catholicism: The Standard Story and Its Problems
  10. 4 Were the Acadians/Cajuns Really Good Catholics?
  11. 5 Hispanic Catholicism and the Illusion of Knowledge
  12. 6 Protestantism and the Academic Study of American Religion: An Enduring Alliance
  13. Epilogue
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index