Cornell University Press : Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America

Collection : Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America

The Catholic community is integral to American history. The Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in 20th Century America is devoted to the study of the Catholic experience in America. A joint venture between The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Cornell University Press, the series welcomes books by senior and junior scholars that illuminate the interactions between Catholics and other Americans. Books in the series explore the ways in which Catholics and their church have responded to, shaped, and been influenced by developments in American society, culture, politics, and religion throughout the twentieth century.

Series Editor

R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and Director of the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He is the former director of The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.

Forthcoming volumes in the series include:

All Good Books Are Catholic Books: The Cultural Work of U.S. Catholic Literature in the 20th Century by Una Cadegan

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All Good Books Are Catholic Books

Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America

Una M. Cadegan

Una M. Cadegan shows how the Catholic Church’s official position on literary culture developed from World War I to Vatican II in 1965.

Catholics in the American Century

Recasting Narratives of U.S. History

Refocusing the narrative of 20th-century America on the Catholic presence in the United States.

On the Irish Waterfront

The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York

James T. Fisher

The real story of gangsters, politicians, longshoremen, union leaders, and Catholic priests that informed the classic 1954 film, On the Waterfront.

Habits of Devotion

Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America

In Habits of Devotion, four senior scholars take the measure of the central religious practices and devotions that by the middle of the twentieth century defined the "ordinary, week-to-week religion" of the majority of American Catholics.

Catholics and Contraception

An American History

Leslie Woodcock Tentler

As Americans rethought sex in the twentieth century, the Catholic Church's teachings on the divisive issue of contraception in marriage were in many ways central. In a fascinating history, Leslie Woodcock Tentler traces changing attitudes: from the...

Ballots and Bibles

Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence

Evelyn Savidge Sterne

By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and...

Claiming the City

Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul

Mary Lethert Wingerd

Are Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity only? How can two cities, spoken of so often in one breath, differ so greatly in their histories and characteristics? Claiming the City traces the contours of St. Paul's "civic identity" to show...

Horizons of the Sacred

Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism

Horizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying the faith and lived religion of Catholics of Mexican descent living in the United States. Religious practices, including devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, celebration of the Day of...

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