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Greenwich Village Catholics: St. Joseph's Church and the Evolution of an Urban Faith Community, 1829-2002
Thomas J. Shelley
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Hardcover. Documenting at the most basic level of Catholic communal organization the interaction between change and continuity, this title tells the history of American Catholicism from the bottom up, relating the life of a local faith community to the larger religious and secular world of which it is a part. Num Pages: 288 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; HRCC7; HRCX8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Fine in fine dustjacket
Jay Dolan transformed the writing of American Catholic history a quarter-century ago by telling the story from the bottom up instead of from the top down. In recent years a number of parish histories have appeared that reflect and expand this new methodology. They successfully relate the life of a local faith community to the larger religious and secular world of which it is a part, and reciprocally illuminate that bigger world from the perspective of this local community. St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village offers a fruitful opportunity for this kind of history. During the life span of this ... Read more
Jay Dolan transformed the writing of American Catholic history a quarter-century ago by telling the story from the bottom up instead of from the top down. In recent years a number of parish histories have appeared that reflect and expand this new methodology. They successfully relate the life of a local faith community to the larger religious and secular world of which it is a part, and reciprocally illuminate that bigger world from the perspective of this local community. St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village offers a fruitful opportunity for this kind of history. During the life span of this ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Catholic University America Pr
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813213491
SKU
KOC0009818
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About Thomas J. Shelley
Thomas J. Shelley is Professor of Historical Theology at Fordham University. He is the author of numerous works, including Slovaks on the Hudson: Most Holy Trinity Church, Yonkers, and the Slovak Catholics of the Archdiocese of New York, 1894-2000 (CUA Press, 2002) and The History of the Archdiocese of New York (1997); he is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of American ... Read more
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