Frontiers of faith : bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic /
Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening-expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=224565 |
Table of Contents:
- The view to the West
- A central role for priests
- "Presumptuous renegades" : controlling priests and congregations
- Making sacred place : churches and religious goods
- The promise and risks of proximity on the frontier
- Emphatic persuasion : teaching, processions, preaching, and polemics.