Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920

by Paula M. Kane

Overview

Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and solidarity, and she delineates the social and cultural meaning of Catholicism in a city where Yankee Protestant nativism persisted even as its hegemony was in decline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807853641
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	08/30/2001
Edition description:	1
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1690L (what's this?)

About the Author

Paula M. Kane is associate professor of religious studies and the Marous Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

A richly contextualized and very readable analysis of the different voices in which Boston Catholics spoke during the Progressive Era. . . . This lively study raises new and important questions for students and scholars in American social and religious history, as well as for specialists in women's studies and gender studies.—Choice

Kane's focus is the harbinger of a new look on the Catholic community, one that will require the rewriting of much of Catholic history in Boston and elsewhere. . . . It makes a worthwhile contribution to the growing library on the Catholic church in the Bay State.—American Historical Review

[Kane's] strength is her impressive understanding of the blending of women's, community and labor groups. The book is a model for understanding the complex interdependence of religion, politics and society in other communities.—Christian Century

[A] thorough and subtly argued book.—Journal of Social History

In showing how Boston's Catholic elite pursued a strategy of 'separatist integration' designed to sustain the religious identity of their constituents even as they explored the borders of the Protestant-secular city, Paula Kane has provided one of the best studies of the defining cultural struggle Catholics have endured on two fronts in twentieth-century America.—James T. Fisher, Yale University

Editorial Reviews

[A] thorough and subtly argued book.
("Journal of Social History")

A richly contextualized and very readable analysis of the different voices in which Boston Catholics spoke during the Progressive Era.
("Choice")

Kane has provided one of the best studies of the defining cultural struggle Catholics have endured on two fronts in twentieth-century America.
(James T. Fisher, Yale University)

Kane's focus is the harbinger of a new look on the Catholic community, one that will require the rewriting of much of Catholic history in Boston and elsewhere.
("American Historical Review")

The book is a model for understanding the complex interdependence of religion, politics and society in other communities.
("Christian Century")

ÝA¨ thorough and subtly argued book.
("Journal of Social History")

From the Publisher