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1 online resource (598 pages) : illustrations |
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Great Lakes books |
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Great Lakes books.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 1833-1887; 1. Three Bishops; 2. The Diocesan Clergy: The First Fifty Years; The Education of the Clergy; 3. Religion and Parish Life: The Experience of the Laity; Sacramental Practice and Devotional Life; "I can rest secure in the Catholic faith": Religious Experience in a Michigan Village; Parish Life: Government and Finance; Lay Charitable Societies; Catholics and Temperance; 4. Catholic Education: The Foundation Years; Secondary Schooling and Higher Education; 5. Catholics in a Non-Catholic World |
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IntermarriageContraception and Abortion; Religion and Politics; "A body of Christian gentlemen": Organized Charity and Interreligious Cooperation; Catholics as a Community: The Significance of Ethnic Divisions; Part II: 1888-1918; 6. The Foley Episcopate; The Man and His City; Aspirations and Modest Achievements; Who Is the Church? Conflict in the Foley Years; The Kolasinski Case; The "Church Farm" Case; The Father Francis Kennedy Case; 7. The Diocesan Clergy: The Foley Years; "An Inward Call": Recruitment and Training; The Priest's Career; Priests in Trouble |
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8. The Laity: A Time of TransitionSacramental Practice; Liturgy and Devotions; Death and the Catholic Religious Sensibility; Religious Education; The Parish as a Community: Social Life, Parish Organizations; Organizations for Boys and Young Men; Organizations for Men; Organizations for Women and Girls; Parish Government; Charity and Social Service; 9. Catholic Sisters, Catholic Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; 10. Catholics and the Larger Society; Intermarriage, Divorce, and Contraception; Politics; In Wartime; Catholics and Protestants in Michigan's Small Towns |
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Part III: 1919-195811. Maturity: The Gallagher and Mooney Episcopates; The Gallagher Years; The Mooney Episcopate; Father Coughlin; Labor; Finances; Organization; 12. The Diocesan Clergy; "Away and retired from the world": The Seminaries; Americans Abroad: European Seminary Training; Priestly Life and Work; Priests in Military Service; Guest House; 13. The Laity; Sacramental Practice; Devotional Life; Liturgical Reform; "Mission Consciousness"; Religious Education; Ethnicity and Parish Government; Lay Organizations; 14. Catholic Education; "Bigotry is not dead": The School Amendment |
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School ReformHigher Education; 15. Catholics in a Changing World; Intermarriage, Divorce, and Contraception; Politics; War and Rumors of War; Catholics and Race; Epilogue: From 1958 to the Present; Abbreviations; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Seasons of Grace is a history of the Catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan from the 1830s through the 1950s. More than a chronicle of clerical successions and institutional expansion, the book also examines those social and cultural influences that affected the development of the Catholic community. To document the course of institutional growth in the diocese, Tentler devotes a portion of the book to tracing the evolution of administrative structures at the Chancery and the founding of parishes, parochial schools, and social welfare organizations. Substantial attention is also given to the social history of the Catholic community, reflected in changes in religious practice, parish life and governance, and the role of women in church organizations and in devotional activities. Tentler also discusses the issue of Catholics in state and local politics and Catholic practice with regard to abortion, contraception, and intermarriage |
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The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program |
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28 black and white images |
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Leslie Woodcock Tentler was a professor of history at the University of Michigan⁰́₃Dearborn |
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Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Detroit (Mich.) -- History
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Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Detroit (Mich.) fast |
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REL010000.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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Detroit Region (Mich.) -- Church history
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Michigan -- Detroit Region
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Church history
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0814343996 |
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9780814343999 |
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