Washington and Rome

Michael Zöller, Albert K. Wimmer, Steven Rendall

Description

To an outside observer, the religious culture of the United States might seem astonishing. For German sociologist Michael Zöller, American Catholicism is more than that; it is a contradiction in terms.

With its historical consciousness, emphasis on institutionalized structures, and combination of skepticism and assurance of grace, Catholicism seems to embody the very opposite of the American cultural principle. Zöller here reexamines widely held notions about secularization and the role of religion in civil society to show how Catholicism was integrated into the Protestant, egalitarian, and populist American culture and to determine what distinguishes American Catholics from both European Catholics and other Americans.

Zöller traces the progress of Catholicism in the New World from earliest European settlement through the "Great Crisis" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to its acceptance in the mainstream of modern America. He tells how, despite the anti-Catholic sentiments of the founding fathers and Americans' deep suspicion of institutions, the Church has fared better in this religiously neutral republic than in the so-called Catholic countries where it was both privileged and persecuted. Because American Catholicism was preoccupied for so long with having to justify itself in both Rome and Washington while fighting internally for a proper balance between these loyalties, it acquired abilities that had never been necessary in the countries where it first flourished.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Sociology of Religion
• Protestant
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Germán
• Religión
• Protestantism
• Sociology
• Christian Church
• Christianity
• New World
• German
• European
• History
• Protestantisme

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 25 juin 1999
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268098537
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

WASHINGTON AND ROME Catholicism in American Culture

Michael ZolLer

Translated by Steven Rendall and Albert Wimmer

WASHINGTON AND ROME

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Michael Zolle

Translated by Steven Rendall and Albert W immer

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TABLES

  ALiation with eLigioUs ComUnities (  5 0 1 9 7 8  2  A Undred Years o  ïmmigration 3   90 PresidentiaL ELection 4  ChUrch Attendance 5  PapaL AUthority   Percentage o People ïdentiying hemseLves with a eLigioUs enomination 7  CathoLics C ompared t o the Average American 8  lack A mericans' eLigioUs Ś elïdentication 9  Priests' Ethnic ŚeLïdentication 1 0  he eveLopment o  CathoLic Ś chooLs ( 1 9 50  993  1   CathoLic Ś tUdents in PUbLic Ś cools and in CathoLic Ś chooLs (  99    2  CathoLic Ś chools i n the Archdiocese o  Chicago (  99   1 3  eneral Śtatistics aboUt American CathoLicism (  9 50  993 

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PR EFACE

Cahôlicism in he Uied Saes:

A Culual ImpôbaBiliy

ConsideR, oR instance, the meRican Catholics    his aith is    ancient, metaphysica, p oetic, elaboRate, ascetic, aUto cRatic, and intoleRant ït conRonts the boastUL natURal man, sUch as the AmeRican is, with a thoUsand denials and menaces EveRything in AmeRican Lie is at the antipodes to sUch a sysŽ tem Yet the AmeRican CatoLic is entiRely at peace  is tone in eveRything, even in ReLigion, is cheeRUlly AmeRican eoRge Śantayana Character à Opiio i the ûite Śtates

F enGaGed he uropeanor he pas e hundred years< AMerIca has IMaGInaIon ar More han any oher par o he ord, and een In hIs cenury a hIsorIan has reerred o he dIscoery o AMerIca as he Mos IMporan een sInce he spread o ChrIsIanIy  ArcInIeGas 1 9 Þ5 5   er he pas hundred years In parIcuar, here has been a þood o boo|s In hIch uropeans hae souGh o Ma|e sense o he e ord n heM AMerIca o he e ord hae becoMe syno nyMs o he nIed aes, and  sHa use Hese erMs In he saMe ay. ependInG on heIr poIn o Ie, uropean raeers In AMerIca ound ha hey eared or hoped or heIr on counrIes n any case, hey e ha oo|InG a AMerIca as I|e oo|InG a heIr on uure, and ha Made hIs Ieraure More IneresInG han repors on ra­ es In oher, een More eoIc pas o he ord Auhors and readers un|noInGy conrMed he heorIes o soca scenss Ho oresa ony a snGe road or Modern socIeIes o He esern ype, aonG hIcH soMe oud proceed More sIy because burdened h ess baGgaGe, bu hch a o heM oud sooner or aer oo o Is end AMerIca as hus seen as beInG In he anGuard o a conInunG uro pean hIsory

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