Ballots & Bibles : ethnic politics and the Catholic Church in Providence / Ballots and Bibles

Ballots & Bibles : ethnic politics and the Catholic Church in Providence /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sterne, Evelyn Savidge, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Edition:1st Cornell pbk.
Series:Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Political activity > Rhode Island > Providence > History.
Immigrants > Political activity > Rhode Island > Providence > History.
Catholics > Political activity > Rhode Island > Providence > History.
Christianity and politics > Rhode Island > Providence > History.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church > History.
Providence (R.I.) > Politics and government.
Providence (R.I.) > Church history.
Table of Contents:
  • The limits of electoral politics
  • "Give us our rights, or we will take them" : the Dorr Rebellion of 1842
  • A city in transition : immigration in the nineteenth century
  • "A state for sale" : corruption and protest in the Gilded Age
  • "The lamp of Aladdin" : immigrants and politics in the Progressive Era
  • The potential of Catholic activism
  • "The center of social life" : ethnic communities and the Catholic Church
  • "Catholics in civic life" : parish activity and political activism
  • "Fight like heroes and pray like saints" : Catholics and the First World War
  • "The force of compulsion" : Americanism and the wartime state
  • The flowering of Catholic politics
  • "The Church's shock troops" : Catholics in the postwar world
  • "The religious issue in politics" : Catholics and Protestants in the 1920s
  • "This very important test of citizenship" : suffrage reform and its aftermath
  • Conclusion.

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