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“diane batts morrow”

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  • Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time

    The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860

    de Diane Batts Morrow ...
    Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. It still exists today. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood, Diane Batts Morrow demonstrates the centrality of race in the Oblate experience.By their very ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

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  • Parish Priest

    Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism

    de Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster ...
    The first commercial, in-depth biography of Father Michael McGivney, the American-born Roman Catholic priest who may well be declared a saint. . . . “Delightful. . . . No magisterial biography emanating a suffocating aura of pomp and self-importance, this book is as low-key and as uplifting as Father Michael McGivney himself.”—Calgary Herald“Father McGivney’s vision remains as relevant as ever in ... Leer más

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  • Excommunicated from the Union

    How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America

    de William B. Kurtz ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    "Concise, engaging . . . [A] superb study of the US Catholic community in the Civil War era." — Civil War Book ReviewAnti-Catholicism has had a long presence in American history. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, many Catholic Americans considered it a chance to prove their patriotism once and for all.Exploring how Catholics sought to use their participation in the war to counteract religious ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

    Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857

    de David A. Wilson ...
    A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics, his inspirational speeches in support of Canadian Confederation, and his assassination by an Irish revolutionary who accused him of betraying his earlier Irish nationalist principles. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, the first volume in a two-part biography, ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Fire & Roses

    The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834

    de Nancy Lusignan Schultz ...
    In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

    African American Women and Religion

    de Bettye Collier-Thomas ...
    “The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following ... Leer más

    Antes $19.99 USD Ahora $14.99 USD

  • Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

    Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights

    de Sylvia D. Hoffert ...
    A fascinating biography of the New York socialite who played a surprising role in the fight for suffrage.Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. She married two millionaires, and pressured her daughter to wed an aristocrat. This resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good ... Leer más

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  • Pursuing Truth

    How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

    de Mary J. Oates ...
    Series series Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
    In Pursuing Truth**, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life.** Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes ... Leer más

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  • Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

    de Teresa Anne Murphy ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions

    de Andrea Greenwood, Mark W. Harris ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the ... Leer más

    $39.39 USD

  • America's Church

    The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

    de Thomas A. Tweed ...
    The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative ... Leer más

    $38.69 USD

  • The Episcopalians

    de Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., David Hein ...
    The story of Episcopalians in America is the story of an influential denomination that has furnished a large share of the American political and cultural leadership. Beginning with the Episcopal Church's roots in sixteenth-century England, The Episcopalians offers a fresh account of its rise to prominence. Chronologically arranged, it traces the establishment of colonial Anglicanism in the New ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus