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Frontiers of faith : bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic / John R. Dichtl.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008Description: 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813172934
  • 0813172934
  • 0813138817
  • 9780813138817
  • 0813135109
  • 9780813135106
  • 1283233266
  • 9781283233262
  • 9786613233264
  • 6613233269
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frontiers of faith.DDC classification:
  • 282/.7709034 22
LOC classification:
  • BX1406.3 .D53 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The view to the West -- A central role for priests -- "Presumptuous renegades" : controlling priests and congregations -- Making sacred place : churches and religious goods -- The promise and risks of proximity on the frontier -- Emphatic persuasion : teaching, processions, preaching, and polemics.
Summary: Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening-expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.

The view to the West -- A central role for priests -- "Presumptuous renegades" : controlling priests and congregations -- Making sacred place : churches and religious goods -- The promise and risks of proximity on the frontier -- Emphatic persuasion : teaching, processions, preaching, and polemics.

Print version record.

Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening-expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors.

English.