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READING LIST FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS (JIM O’TOOLE)
American Catholicism
(I) American Religion: General and Comparative Works
Ahlstrom, Sydney. A Religious History of the American People (Yale, 1972).
Butler, Jon. “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” The
Journal of American History, Vol. 90, No. 4 (March 2004): 1357-1378.
Gaustad, Edwin, A Religious History of America. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Herberg, Will. Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology (1960).
Marty, Martin E. Pilgrims in their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. New York:
Viking Penguin, 1984.
Moor, R. Laurence, Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1986.
(II) American Catholicism
A) General Works
Davis, Cyprian. The History of Black Catholics in the United States. New York: Crossroad,
1990.
Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1985.
Ellis, John Tracey. American Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Greeley, Andrew M., The Catholic Experience. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
Halsey, William. The Survival of American Innocence: Catholicism in an Era of Disillusionment,
1920-1940. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980.
James J. Hennesey, American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the
United States. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
McGreevy, John. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: Norton & Co.,
2003.
Morris, Charles R., American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most
Powerful Church. New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997.
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O’Toole, James. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2008.
B) Catholic life, Devotional Practice
Greer, Alan. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Orsi, Robert. Thank you, St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
O’Toole, James. Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Tentler, Leslie. Catholics and Contraception: An American History. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2004.
C) The Religious Life and Social Action
Brown, Dorothy M. The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Coburn, Carol, and Smith, Martha. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and
American Life, 1836-1920.
Fitzgerald, Maureen. Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York’s
Welfare System, 1830-1920. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Hoy, Suellen, “The Journey Out: The Recruitment and Emigration of Irish Religious Women to
the United States, 1812-1914,” Journal of Women’s History, 6 and 7 (Winter/Spring
1995), 64-98.
D) The Immigrant Church, Nativism and Anti-Catholicism
Blanschard, Paul. American Freedom and Catholic Power. Boston: Beacon Press, 1949.
D’Agostino, Peter. Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to
Fascism.
Dolan, Jay. The Immigrant Church: New York’s Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865.
Franchot, Jenny. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism.
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Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1999.
Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Hoy, Suellen, “The Journey Out: The Recruitment and Emigration of Irish Religious Women to
the United States, 1812-1914,” Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 6, No. 4
(Winter/Spring, 1995), 64-98.
Kenny, Kevin, “The Molly Maguires and the Catholic Church,” Labor History, 37 (Summer
1995): 345-376.
Kuzniewski, Faith and Fatherland: The Polish Church War in Wisconsin, 1896-1918. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980.
McGreevy, John. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the TwentiethCentury Urban North.
_______. “Thinking on One's Own: Catholicism in the American Intellectual Imagination, 19281960,” Journal of American History, 84 (June 1997): 97-131.
Miller, Kerby, “Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States: The Case of
Irish-American Ethnicity,” in Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, ed., Immigration
Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics. New York, 1990.
Orsi, Robert A. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 18801950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
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