"American Catholics" by Leslie Woodcock Tentler

American Catholics A History Leslie Woodcock Tentler

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 23 Jun 2020
ISBN:: 9780300219647
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 416 pages: 235 x 156mm
Illustrations:: 15 b-w illus.
Sales territories:: World

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This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice and the impact of clergy on Catholic life and culture as she seeks to answer the question, What did it mean to be a “good Catholic” at particular times and in particular places?

In its focus on Catholics' participation in American politics and Catholic intellectual life, this book includes in-depth discussions of Catholics, race, and the Civil War; Catholics and public life in the twentieth century; and Catholic education and intellectual life. Shedding light on topics of recent interest such as the role of Catholic women in parish and community life, Catholic reproductive ethics regarding birth control, and the Catholic church sex abuse crisis, this engaging history provides an up-to-date account of the history of American Catholicism.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler is professor emerita in the department of history at the Catholic University of America and the author of Catholics and Contraception: An American History. She lives in Washington, DC.

“Tentler does justice to James Joyce's quip that Catholicism means ‘here comes everybody.’ This is the story of everybody who was part of the church in the United States, a story insightfully analyzed and admirably told.”—James M. O’Toole, author of The Faithful