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Tar Heel Catholics
William F. Powers
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Description for Tar Heel Catholics
Hardback. Num Pages: 532 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 34. Weight in Grams: 685.
Although today the largest religious denomination in the United States, until the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church represented less than 1 percent of the population of North Carolina. Tar Heel Catholics recounts the story of the Catholic Church in what was long called "mission territory" on the doorstep of a rapidly developing American Catholic institutional presence. The explanation of this phenomenon lies in the history of the Deep South itself, including slavery, segregation, and the overwhelming religious dominance of the Baptist church. Tar Heel Catholics relates the great difficulty early churchmen encountered in attempting to establish Catholicism in an inhospitable environment. It was not until 1924 that North Carolina became the last state in the union to gain the status of a diocese.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
532
Condition
New
Number of Pages
532
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761825982
SKU
V9780761825982
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99-15
About William F. Powers
William F. Powers was Professor of Sociology at Suffolk Community College until his retirement in 1999.
Reviews for Tar Heel Catholics
Overall, Powers' book is important because it is the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Church in North Carolina. Tar Heel Catholics should serve as a springboard for all future scholarship on Catholicism in a state that has evolved from a backwater of Catholicism into one of the nation's most dynamic Catholic communities.
John Quinterno, Assistant Director, Program on Southern Politics, Media,and Public Life, UNC-Chapel Hill This book is reveting history...
The Catholic Historical Review
This study is a welcome and informative addition to a growing southern Catholic historiography.
James M. Woods, Georgia Southern University
Journal of Southern History
Tar Heel Catholics is strongly recommended for any interested reader, regardless of faith, and will also become the necessary starting point for academic researchers pursuing all topics related to Catholicism in North Carolina.
Donald Beagle, Belmont Abbey College
North Carolina Historical Review
John Quinterno, Assistant Director, Program on Southern Politics, Media,and Public Life, UNC-Chapel Hill This book is reveting history...
The Catholic Historical Review
This study is a welcome and informative addition to a growing southern Catholic historiography.
James M. Woods, Georgia Southern University
Journal of Southern History
Tar Heel Catholics is strongly recommended for any interested reader, regardless of faith, and will also become the necessary starting point for academic researchers pursuing all topics related to Catholicism in North Carolina.
Donald Beagle, Belmont Abbey College
North Carolina Historical Review