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Inventing America'S First Immigration Crisis - Political Nativism In The Antebellum West

by Luke Ritter

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Send Lazarus - Catholicism And The Crises Of Neoliberalism

by Matthew T. Eggemeier e Peter Joseph Fritz

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 Today’s regnant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Send Lazarus’s theological critique wends its way through four neoliberal crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation, all while plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberalism.
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Womanpriest - Tradition And Transgression In The Contemporary Roman Catholic Church

by Jill Peterfeso

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 This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. In order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today.
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Inventing America'S First Immigration Crisis - Political Nativism In The Antebellum West

by Luke Ritter

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 Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the National American, or Know Nothing, Party or why the nation s bloodiest anti-immigrant riots erupted in western cities namely Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. In focusing on the antebellum West, Inventing America s First Immigration Crisis illuminates the cultural, economic, and political issues that originally motivated American nativism and explains how it ultimately shaped the political relationship between church and state. In six detailed chapters, Ritter explains how unprecedented immigration from Europe and rapid westward expansion re-ignited fears of Catholicism as a corrosive force. He presents new research on the inner sanctums of the secretive Order of Know-Nothings and provides original data on immigration, crime, and poverty in the urban West. Ritter argues that the country s first bout of political nativism actually renewed Americans commitment to church state separation. Native-born Americans compelled Catholics and immigrants, who might have otherwise shared an affinity for monarchism, to accept American-style democracy. Catholics and immigrants forced Americans to adopt a more inclusive definition of religious freedom. This study offers valuable insight into the history of nativism in U.S. politics and sheds light on present-day concerns about immigration, particularly the role of anti-Islamic appeals in recent elections.
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Just Universities - Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education

by Gerald J. Beyer

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 Third Place, Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching Gerald J. Beyer’s Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to embody Catholic social teaching in their campus policies and practices. Beyer argues that the corporatization of the university has infected U.S. higher education with hyper-individualistic models and practices that hinder the ability of Catholic institutions to create an environment imbued with bedrock values and principles of Catholic Social Teaching such as respect for human rights, solidarity, and justice. Beyer problematizes corporatized higher education and shows how it has adversely affected efforts at Catholic schools to promote worker justice on campus; equitable admissions; financial aid; retention policies; diversity and inclusion policies that treat people of color, women, and LGBTQ persons as full community members; just investment; and stewardship of resources and the environment.
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Pure Act - The Uncommon Life Of Robert Lax

by Michael N. Mcgregor

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 Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic Publishers Honorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book Award Finalist, Washington State Book Award Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people. Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton’s best friend and in Europe as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax left behind a promising New York writing career to travel with a circus, live among immigrants in post-war Marseilles and settle on a series of remote Greek islands where he learned and recorded the simple wisdom of the local people. Born a Jew, he became a Catholic and found the authentic community he sought in Greek Orthodox fishermen and sponge divers. In his early life, as he alternated working at The New Yorker, writing screenplays in Hollywood and editing a Paris literary journal with studying philosophy, serving the poor in Harlem and living in a sanctuary high in the French Alps, Lax pursued an approach to life he called pure acta way of living in the moment that was both spontaneous and practiced, God-inspired and self-chosen. By devoting himself to simplicity, poverty and prayer, he expanded his capacity for peace, joy and love while producing distinctive poetry of such stark beauty critics called him "one of America’s greatest experimental poets" and "one of the new ‘saints’ of the avant-garde." Written by a writer who met Lax in Greece when he was a young seeker himself and visited him regularly over fifteen years, Pure Act is an intimate look at an extraordinary but little-known life. Much more than just a biography, it’s a tale of adventure, an exploration of friendship, an anthology of wisdom, and a testament to the liberating power of living an uncommon life.
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Paul Hanly Furfey - Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer

by Nicholas K. Rademacher

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 Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfeyâ€™s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.
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Pure Act - The Uncommon Life Of Robert Lax

by Michael N. Mcgregor

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 A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the authorâ€™s personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Laxâ€™s distinctive poetic style and a spontaneous, spiritual approach to life he called pure act.
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The Bitterwine Oath

by Hannah West

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Missions Begin With Blood - Suffering And Salvation In The Borderlands Of New Spain

by Brandon Bayne

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The Princeton Fugitive Slave - The Trials Of James Collins Johnson

by Lolita Buckner Inniss

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 James Collins Johnson was an escaped slave working at Princeton University in 1843 when he was arrested and tried as a fugitive. Though convicted and slated for return to slavery, he was redeemed by a local white woman. Johnson became one of the best-known vendors at Princeton over his six-decade career. This book challenges this uncomplicated account of Johnsonâ€™s life.
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Called Back - My Reply To Cancer, My Return To Life

by Mary Cappello

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America'S Most Famous Catholic (According To Himself) - Stephen Colbert And American Religion In The Twenty-First Century

by Stephanie N. Brehm

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 This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbertâ€™s position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbertâ€™s experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.
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Just Universities - Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education

by Gerald J. Beyer

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Inventing America'S First Immigration Crisis - Political Nativism In The Antebellum West

by Luke Ritter

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Working Alternatives - American And Catholic Experiments In Work And Economy

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 Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religionsâ€™ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.
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Womanpriest - Tradition And Transgression In The Contemporary Roman Catholic Church

by Jill Peterfeso

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Send Lazarus - Catholicism And The Crises Of Neoliberalism

by Peter Joseph Fritz

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 Contrary to Catholicismâ€™s commitment to mercy, todayâ€™s dominant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Central is treatment of four neoliberal-perpetuated and -exacerbated crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation.
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At Wit'S End - The Deadly Discourse On The Jewish Joke

by Louis Kaplan

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 This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.
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The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin - Easy Essays From The Catholic Worker

by Peter Maurin

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American Parishes - Remaking Local Catholicism

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 Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.
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Killing Times - The Temporal Technology Of The Death Penalty

by David Wills

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 Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Willsâ€™s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.
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The Bread Of The Strong - Lacouturisme And The Folly Of The Cross, 1910-1985

by Jack Lee Downey

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 The Bread of the Strong investigates the origins, development, and migration of a Roman Catholic retreat movement founded by OnÃ©sime Lacouture, SJ. Although suppressed in its original host region of QuÃ©bec, it migrated to the United States, thanks largely to John Hugoâ€™s advocacy, and critically influenced Dorothy Dayâ€™s spiritual development.
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Missions Begin With Blood - Suffering And Salvation In The Borderlands Of New Spain

by Brandon Bayne

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 Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native "idolatries," or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.
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