Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- Part II Catholic Life and Culture
- 4 Catholic Worship
- 5 Catholic Intellectual Life
- 6 Catholic Education
- 7 Social Welfare and Social Reform
- 8 Women Religious
- 9 Catholics and Politics
- 10 Arts and Culture
- 11 Anti-Catholicism in the United States
- 12 Gender and Sexuality
- 13 American Catholics in a Global Context
- Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
- References
11 - Anti-Catholicism in the United States
from Part II - Catholic Life and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- Part II Catholic Life and Culture
- 4 Catholic Worship
- 5 Catholic Intellectual Life
- 6 Catholic Education
- 7 Social Welfare and Social Reform
- 8 Women Religious
- 9 Catholics and Politics
- 10 Arts and Culture
- 11 Anti-Catholicism in the United States
- 12 Gender and Sexuality
- 13 American Catholics in a Global Context
- Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
The perception of Roman Catholic faith, practice, and polity as being either corrupt, superstitious, undemocratic, or somehow “un-American,” dates back to the arrival of British Protestants in New England in the seventeenth century, and has morphed into newer shapes more recently in social media. It has been labeled “the deepest bias in the history of the American people” by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; others have termed it the “anti-Semitism of the intellectuals” and “the last acceptable prejudice.”1
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism , pp. 197 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Further Reading
Billington, Ray Allen. The Protestant Crusade, 1800–1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. New York: Macmillan, 1937.Google Scholar
Gabriel, Ralph Henry. The Course of American Democratic Thought: An Intellectual History Since 1815. New York: Ronald Press, 1940.Google Scholar
Greeley, Andrew. An Ugly Little Secret: Anti-Catholicism in North America. Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, 1977.Google Scholar
Handy, Robert. A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.Google Scholar
Massa, Mark. Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. New York: The Crossroad Publishing, 2003.Google Scholar
McGreevy, John. “Thinking on One’s Own: Catholicism in the American Intellectual Imagination, 1928–1960,” Journal of American History 84 (June 1997): 97–131.Google Scholar
Schultz, Nancy Lusignan. Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. New York: Free Press, 2000.Google Scholar