American Catholicism Major Field Completed Reading…
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The Shaping of American Catholicism through Gender –
Brown, Dorothy M. and Elizabeth McKeown. The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American
Welfare. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Coburn, Carol K. and Martha Smith. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American
Life, 1836-1920. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
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Regional Dynamics of American Catholicism –
The Triumphant and Immigrant Church (Northeast and Old Northwest) –
Avella, Stephen. This Confident Church: Catholic Leadership and Life in Chicago, 1940-1965. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.*
Dolan, Jay P. The Immigrant Church: New York’s Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975.
Kantowicz, Edward R. Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
O’Toole, James M. Militant And Triumphant: William Henry O’Connell and the Catholic Church in
Boston, 1859-1944. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
Comparative –
Fay, Terence. A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadianism. Montreal:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
Confronting Race (South and Urban Areas) –
McDonogh, Gary Wray. Black and Catholic in Savannah, Georgia. Knoxville, TN: The University of
Tennessee Press, 1993.
McGreevy, John. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban
North. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Miller, Randall M. and John L. Wakelyn. Catholics in the Old South: Essays on Church and Culture.
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999.
Ochs, Stephen. Desegregating the Altar: The Struggle for Black Catholic Priests, 1854-1960. Notre
Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1988.
O’Toole, James M.. Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts, 2002.
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Surveying American Catholicism –
Ellis, John Tracy. American Catholicism. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1956.
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Morris, Charles. American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful
Church. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
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The Practice of American Catholicism –
Devotional Culture Orsi, Robert Anthony. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 18801915. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
_________________. Thank You Saint Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
McDannell, Colleen. Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven,
Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996.
Taves, Ann. Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth Century America. Notre
Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.
Catholic Spirituality –
Chinnici, Joseph P. Living Stones: The History and Structure of Catholic Spiritual Life in the United
States. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1989.
Dolan, Jay P. Catholic Revivalism: The American Experience, 1830-1900. Notre Dame, IN: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1978.
Hall, David D. Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1997.
Kupke, Raymond J. American Catholic Preaching and Piety in the Time of John Carroll. Lanham, MD:
The University Press of America, 1991.
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Catholic Intellectual Thought –
Intellectual Development during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries –
Appleby, R. Scott. “Church and Age Unite!”: The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism. Notre
Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.
Blanshard, Paul. American Freedom and Catholic Power. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1949.
Ellis, John Tracy. “American Catholics and the Intellectual Life.” Thought (1955): 351-388.
Ferguson, Thomas. Catholic and American: The Political Theology of John Courtney Murray. Kansas
City: Sheed & Ward, 1993.
Gleason, Philip. Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
McGreevy, John T. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
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Murray, John Courtney. We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition. New
York: Sheed & Ward, 1960.
Reher, Margaret Mary. Catholic Intellectual Life in America: A Historical Study of Persons and
Movements. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1989.
Catholicism and Politics –
Allitt, Patrick. Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1995.
Weaver, Mary Jo and R. Scott Appleby ed. Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Weaver, Mary Jo. Editor. What’s Left?: Liberal American Catholics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 1999.
Modernity and the Catholic Response –
Fisher, James Terence. The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962. Chapel Hill, NC: The
University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Halsey, William M. The Survival of American Innocence: Catholicism in an Era of Disillusionment,
1920-1940. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980.
McCarraher, Eugene. Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
Massa, Mark A. Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame
Football Team. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999.
Turner, James. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America. Balitmore: John
Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Transatlantic Studies of American Catholicism –
Allitt, Patrick. Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1997.
D’Agostino, Peter R. Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to
Fascism. Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 2004.
Franchot, Jenny. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994.
Moloney, Deidre M. American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive
Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Vogel, Lester I. To See a Promised Land: Americans and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
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